Miloš Trivunac (28 July 1876 – 27 November 1944) was a prominent Serbian professor and writer, who, influenced by German literature, published many works in

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and

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. He was also critical of it in his works.

Biography

Trivunac was born in Aleksinac in 1876, and educated in

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, Belgrade,

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, and

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. During the end of the

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, Trivunac was the president of the Serbian National Defense League of America, founded by Michael Pupin and headquartered at 441 West 22nd Street in New York City. Upon his return to Serbia, he founded the Department of German Language and Literature at the

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and was its first professor there. Also, he was one of the founders of the Serbian

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center in 1926. In 1941 when Yugoslavia was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany,

Milan Nedić Milan Nedić ( sr-Cyrl, Милан Недић; 2 September 1878 – 4 February 1946) was a Yugoslav and Serbian army general and politician who served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Royal Yugoslav Army and minister of war in the ...

appointed him Minister of Education in the

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in Serbia, but he was removed from that position already on 7 October 1941. In 1944 he was arrested and executed by

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in Belgrade together with

Momčilo Janković Momčilo Janković (Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, Serbian Cyrillic: Момчило Јанковић; 24 November 1883 – 27 November 1944) was a Serbian politician in the Nazi Germany, Nazi-controlled Government of National Salvation in 1941. Car ...

, Milan Horvatski, Srbislav Dokić, Milan Milovanović, Ranisav Avramović and Jovan Mijušković and 105 other alleged Serbian collaborators.

Selected works

*''Aus dem Leben G. Bude's'', 1902 *''Guillaume Budes De l‘institution du Prince. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Renaissancebewegung in Frankreich'', 1903 *''Žena u Geteovoj poeziji'', 1908 *''Geteov Faust'', 1921 *''Gete'', 1931 *''Geteova svetska književnost'', 1933 *''Nemacki uticaj na naš јеzik'', 1937 *''Geteov Klaviho'', 1938

References

1876 births 1944 deaths Serbian politicians {{Serbia-politician-stub Executed Serbian collaborators with Nazi Germany People killed by Yugoslav Partisans People from Aleksinac