Andra Stevanović (
Belgrade
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, 12 November 1859 - Belgrade, 15 November 1929) was a Serbian architect and professor at the
University of Belgrade. Andra Stevanović and architect
Nikola Nestorović
Nikola Nestorovic ( sr-cyr, Никола Несторовић, April 15, 1868 Požarevac - February 18, 1957, Belgrade) was a Serbian architect and professor at the Technical Faculty.
After finishing grade school, he moved to Belgrade, where he ...
collaborated on several major projects in Belgrade that are now considered cultural monuments.
Biography
His father was Joca Stevanović, a civil servant. He finished elementary school and high school in Belgrade in 1877. In 1881, he graduated from the Technical Faculty of the
Grande école (the future university) in Belgrade and immediately got a job in the civil service, where he spent two years working as a sub-engineer in the Belgrade district. Like most Serbian engineers of the time, he had to do his post-graduate studies abroad. In 1883, he began studying at the
Berlin's
Königlich Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg, where he remained for several years and acquired solid practical knowledge. He graduated and passed the state exam, which was a rarity for an alien in Germany, a privilege given to a small number of foreigners.
He returned to Serbia and got a job at the beginning of 1890 as an engineer in the Ministry of Construction, where he stayed for only three months. He was elected professor at the Technical Faculty of his ''alma mater'' in Belgrade, where he worked until his retirement in 1924. He was among the first eight full professors of the
University of Belgrade in 1905, who elected the entire other teaching staff. They were
Jovan Žujović
Jovan M. Žujović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован M. Жујовић; 18 October 1856 – 19 July 1936) was a Serbian anthropologist, known as a pioneer in geology, paleontology and craniometry in Serbia.
Biography
After studying in Paris, he ret ...
,
Sima Lozanić
Simeon Milivoje Lozanić and Simeon "Sima" Lozanić ( sr-cyr, Сима Лозанић) (1847 – 1935) was a Serbian chemist, president of the Serbian Royal Academy, the first rector of the University of Belgrade, minister of foreign affairs, mini ...
,
Jovan Cvijić,
Mihailo Petrović Alas
Mihailo Petrović Alas ( sr-Cyrl, Михаило Петровић Алас; 6 May 1868 – 8 June 1943), was a Serbian mathematicians, mathematician and inventor. He was also a distinguished professor at Belgrade University, an academic, fisherma ...
, Andra Stevanović, Dragoljub Pavlović, Milić Radovanović and
Ljubomir Jovanović
Ljubomir Jovanović ( sr-cyr, Љубомир Јовановић, 14 February 1865 – 2 October 1928) was a Serbian politician and historian. He was a professor at the University of Belgrade since its establishment in 1905, a member of the SK ...
. He thus achieved his life ideal, to which he remained faithful for the rest of his life. He turned down many more lucrative positions in the state apparatus and chose to work with students. During his life, he dedicated most of his energy to university work and education. He was a good expert and a good speaker. He supported the will of the students for the vocation they had chosen.
In addition to
pedagogy, he was engaged in the design and study of old church monuments,
Oplenac in particular. He was elected a member of the Serbian Royal Academy in 1910 and was the secretary of its Art Department for a long time. When he retired, he was awarded the title of Honorary Doctor of Science of the
University of Belgrade. Andra Stevanović participated a lot in the public life of Belgrade and Serbia, which most likely prevented him from achieving greater results in the field of science and design. He died in Belgrade after returning from one of his study trips.
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Significant architectural works
* National Museum of Serbia with Nikola Nestorović
Nikola Nestorovic ( sr-cyr, Никола Несторовић, April 15, 1868 Požarevac - February 18, 1957, Belgrade) was a Serbian architect and professor at the Technical Faculty.
After finishing grade school, he moved to Belgrade, where he ...
;
* House V. Marković - Terazije 38 with Nikola Nestorović;
* Belgrade Cooperative
Belgrade Cooperative ( sr, Београдска задруга) was a cooperative bank founded in 1882 to promote savings and support small enterprises, craftspeople and the poor of Belgrade. Member-shareholders have been paying membership in amo ...
- 48 Karadjordjeva Street with Nikola Nestorović;
* Building of Merchant Stamenković
Building of Merchant Stamenković is located in Belgrade, in 41, Kralja Petra Street and it has the status of a cultural monument. The building of Merchant Stamenković was built in 1907 according to the project by the architects Аndra Stevanov ...
- Corner of King Peter and Uzun-Mirkova with Nikola Nestorović;
* Serbian Royal Academy (today the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences
The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, sr-Cyr, Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the ...
building) - Knez Mihajlova 35 with Nikola Nestorović and Dragutin Đorđević
Dragutin (Cyrillic: Драгутин) is a masculine given name.
Those bearing it include:
* Stephen Dragutin of Serbia
* Dragutin Topić
* Dragutin Dimitrijević
* Dragutin Mitić
* Dragutin Tadijanović
* Dragutin Šurbek
* Dragutin Lerman
* Dr ...
;
* Church of Saint Sava in Kosovska Mitrovica;
* The Serbian Orthodox Seminary building in Prizren
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References
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Serbian architects
1859 births
1929 deaths