Milan Kujundžić Aberdar ( sr-cyr, Милан Кујунџић Абердар; 1842 - 1893) was a
Serbian poet,
philosopher
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and politician.
Biography
He was born in Belgrade and given the name Janićije but later he changed it to Milan.His pseudonym Aberdar came from his collected poems.
He studied at the
gymnasium in Belgrade and
Pančevo
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, and enrolled the legal faculty of the
Belgrade Lyceum. With the Turkish bombardment of Belgrade in 1862, he stopped his studies and joined the Serbian army.
After that, he received a scholarship from the Serbian government to study philosophy in
Vienna
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Munich
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,
Paris
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, and
London
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. Before finishing his studies at Oxford, in 1866 he was back in Serbia, recalled by the Minister of Education, to take over the Department of Philosophy at the
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He was a professor of philosophy at Belgrade's
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, Secretary of the Serbian Learned Society (from 1873 to 1882), President of the National Assembly (from 1880 to 1885),
Minister of Education (1886-1887), envoy of Rome, Youth Editor of ''Srbadije'' and poet.
King
Milan Obrenović appointed him on 5 April 1887 the first 16 academicians of the
Serbian Royal Academy
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, among them was Milan Kujundžić Aberdar.
He participated in the Serbian-Turkish wars of 1876-1878. and for that reason, he was promoted to Major, and later to Lieutenant-Colonel. Among the many decorations he received, the most significant are: the medal of the regeneration of the Serbian kingdom, the
Order of the Cross of Takovo
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History
It was instituted in the Principality of Serbia in 1865 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Second Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire, which had started in Takovo, Serbi ...
III degree, the
Order of the White Eagle III degree, and the Order of the Cross of Takovo IV degree with swords.
Works
* ''Kratki pregled harmonije u svetu'' (A Short Outline of the Harmonies in the World)
* ''Filozofija u Srba'' (Philosophy Among Serbs)
* '' Šta je i koliko u naš urađeno na lođici?'' (What and How Much Was Done in Logic in Our Country?)
* '' Ide li svet na bolje ili na gore? (Is the world going for better or for worse?)
* ''Filozofska i društveno-politička shvatanja'' (Philosophical and Sociopolitical Conceptions)
See also
*
Ljubomir Nedić
Ljubomir Nedić ( sr, Љубомир Недић; 25 April 1858 – 29 July 1902) was a Serbian philosopher and literary critic.
Having received academic training in philosophy at the University of Leipzig, Nedić taught at the Belgrade Higher Sc ...
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Branislav Petronijević
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Ksenija Atanasijević
Ksenija Atanasijević (Xenia Atanassievich) (1894–1981) was the first recognised major female Serbian philosopher, and the first female professors of Belgrade University, where she graduated. She wrote about Giordano Bruno, ancient Greek phi ...
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Petar II Petrović Njegoš Petar ( sr, Петар, bg, Петър) is a South Slavic masculine given name, their variant of the Biblical name Petros cognate to Peter.
Derivative forms include Pero, Pejo, Pera, Perica, Petrica, Periša. Feminine equivalent is Petra.
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*
Jovan Došenović
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Božidar Knežević
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Svetozar Marković
Svetozar Marković ( sr-Cyrl, Светозар Марковић, ; 9 September 1846 – 26 February 1875) was a Serbian political activist, literary critic and socialist philosopher. He developed an activistic anthropological philosophy w ...
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Dimitrije Matić
Dimitrije Matić ( sr, Димитрије Матић; 18 August 1821 – 17 October 1884) was a Serbian philosopher, jurist, professor, and politician who served as Minister of Education, Minister of Justice and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He ...
*
Konstantin Cukić
References
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19th-century Serbian poets
19th-century male writers
Writers from Belgrade
1842 births
1893 deaths
Presidents of the National Assembly (Serbia)
Politicians from Belgrade
Serbian male poets
19th-century politicians
19th-century Serbian philosophers
Members of the Serbian Learned Society
Education ministers of Serbia