Miloš S. Milojević ( sr-Cyrl, Милош С. Милојевић; 1840–1897) was a Serbian lawyer, writer and politician. His work has been described as "at a ridge between history and literature", mostly for his travel-recording genre.

Biography

Miloš S. Milojević, son of a parish priest, was born at Crna Bara in

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, on 16 October 1840. He graduated with a law degree from Belgrade's Velika škola in 1862; studied philosophy, philology and history at the

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, from 1862 to 1865. His professor was

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. He didn't wait to graduate and in 1866 Milojević returned to Serbia to work for the government judicial system, and later taught at high schools in

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, Belgrade and

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. He died in Belgrade on 24 June 1897. He was buried in

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Historiography

In 1887 his approach to historiography was challenged and debated by Ilarion Ruvarac and Ljubomir Kovačević and eventually proved erroneous through critical methods, though his opus is not completely abandoned. He travelled to the Kosovo and Metohija region from 1871 to 1877 and left three volumes of data and maps which testify that Serbs were the majority and Albanians the minority population. His demographic-statistical structure matched an independent census taken by the Austrian authorities at about the same time.

Works

* ''Odlomci istorije Srba i srpskih - jugoslavenskih - zemalja u Turskoj i Austriji'', Beograd, 1872. * ''Pesme i običaji ukupnog naroda srpskog'' * ''Putopisi dela prave - Stare Srbije'' * ''Naši manastiri i kaluđerstvo'' * ''Prva dečanska hrisovulja'' * ''Druga dečanska hrisovulja''

Translations from Russian

* ''Običaji velikorusa'' * ''Maljuta Skuratov'' (in two volumes)

Manuscripts

* ''Putopise'' (in nine segments) * ''Četvrta knjiga pesama i običaja'' * ''Nemanjića'' * ''Prizrenska tapija'' * ''Pravila svete Petke paraskeve srpske'' * ''Pravila svetom Simenu srpskom'' * ''Opšti list iz Patrijaršije Pećske'' * ''Odgovor na izmišljotine u 10 i 12 broju Budućnosti, pod imenom: Naša agitacija na istok''

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