Miloš Trivunac (28 July 1876 – 27 November 1944) was a prominent Serbian professor and writer, who, influenced by German literature, published many works in
Serbian
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and
German
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. He was also critical of it in his works.
Biography
Trivunac was born in Aleksinac in 1876, and educated in
Niš
Niš (; sr-Cyrl, Ниш, ; names in other languages) is the third largest city in Serbia and the administrative center of the Nišava District. It is located in southern part of Serbia. , the city proper has a population of 183,164, while ...
, Belgrade,
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
, and
Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...
. During the end of the
Great War, Trivunac was the president of the
Serbian National Defense League of America, founded by
Michael Pupin
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin ( sr-Cyrl, Михајло Идворски Пупин, ; 4 October 1858Although Pupin's birth year is sometimes given as 1854 (and Serbia and Montenegro issued a postage stamp in 2004 to commemorate the 150th anniversary o ...
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
University of Belgrade and was its first professor there. Also, he was one of the founders of the Serbian
PEN center in 1926.
In 1941 when Yugoslavia was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany,
Milan Nedić appointed him Minister of Education in the
Government of National Salvation in Serbia, but he was removed from that position already on 7 October 1941.
In 1944 he was arrested and executed by
Yugoslav Partisans
The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene: , or the National Liberation Army, sh-Latn-Cyrl, Narodnooslobodilačka vojska (NOV), Народноослободилачка војска (НОВ); mk, Народноослобод ...
in Belgrade together with
Momčilo Janković
Momčilo Janković (Serbian Cyrillic: Момчило Јанковић; 24 November 1883 – 27 November 1944) was a Serbian politician in the Nazi-controlled Government of National Salvation in 1941.
Career
He was elected in 1938 as a deputy o ...
, Milan Horvatski, Srbislav Dokić, Milan Milovanović, Ranisav Avramović and
Jovan Mijušković
Jovan Mijušković (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Мијушковић; 17 September 1886 – 27 November 1944) was a Serbian doctor and Minister of Social Policy and People's Health in the Nazi-controlled Government of National Salvation.
He was ...
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
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Executed Serbian collaborators with Nazi Germany
People killed by Yugoslav Partisans