Mihailo "Miljko" Radonjić ( sr-cyr, Михаило-Миљко Радоњић; 1770 – 1836) was a Serbian writer, professor at the

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and politician-diplomat. Not much is known about him. He was an educated man. During the

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(1804–1813) he was part of the Serbian rebel government, and served as the

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as part of the

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(1811–12). He taught German at Belgrade's

(est. 1808). After the collapse of the uprising in 1813, he went to

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where he lived and worked until 1823 as a teacher at the Jovan Militić School in

. After Trieste, he went to

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(today's Romania) where he engaged in trade. Radonjić was the first Foreign Minister in the modern history of Serbian statehood. He was appointed to that position when the previously appointed

Milenko Stojković Milenko Stojković ( sr-cyr, Миленко Стојковић; 1769, Kličevac, Požarevac – 1831, Bakhchysarai, Crimea) was a Serbian revolutionary and '' bimbaša'' in the First Serbian Uprising early in the 19th century. He is mos ...

(from January 11, 1811) refused to enter the Governing State Council and accept the duty of minister.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Radonjic, Miljko 19th-century Serbian people Serbian writers Serbian educators People of the Serbian Revolution Belgrade Higher School people 1770 births 1836 deaths Foreign ministers of Serbia

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