Ljubomir "Ljuba" Tadić ( sr-cyr, Љубомир "Љуба" Тадић; 14 May 1925 – 31 December 2013) was a Serbian academic and politician. He was born in Smriječno village near Plužine, then in the Kingdom Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He was a Belgrade Law School graduate and a professor of

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at the University of Belgrade

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as well as a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. His father Pavle Tadić was a lieutenant of the

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in the wars against the

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. Pavle opened the first school in

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, during the

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. Tadić was one of the founders of the

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(DS) in

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in December 1989. He was one of the leaders of the

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movement in Serbia. Tadić was of the Piva Herzegovinian clan. Tadić was married to

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Nevenka Kićanović and had two children. His son Boris Tadić served as the

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from 2004 to 2012. Ljuba Tadić died in

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, aged 88.

External links

Tadić's article remembering Zoran ĐinđićSerbian Academy of Sciences and Arts membership page in Social Sciences
1925 births 2013 deaths People from Plužine Serbs of Montenegro Yugoslav Partisans members Democratic Party (Serbia) politicians Academic staff of the University of Belgrade Philosophy academics Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Serbian writers University of Belgrade Faculty of Law alumni University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy alumni Boris Tadić Burials at Belgrade New Cemetery {{Serbia-politician-stub