Avram Petronijević (13 September 1791 – 22 April 1852) was a Serbian politician serving as

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of the

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on several terms and holding the longest term by one Prime Minister in the political history of Serbia.

Biography

Petronijević was born in Tekija, and was educated in a school in the neighboring Orşova (

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). In 1817 he returned to

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to pursue a political career and soon became the personal secretary of Prince Miloš Obrenović. He was a member of the Serbian deputation in

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from 1821 until 1826, and later several times a Serbian deputy (''ćehaja'') at the Turkish government (

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). Later, with

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, Aleksa Simić, Stojan Simić, Milutin Savić, Ilija Garašanin, Petronijević stood at the head of ''Ustavobranitelji'' (

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against the Prince Prince Miloš Obrenović. During the reign of Prince Alexander Karađorđević, starting from 1844 until his death he was Minister of Foreign Affairs and Representative of the Prince (Prime Minister). He died in Tsargrad on 22 April 1852 (

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) and was buried in the church of St. Petka on the

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, next to Samuilo Jakovljević, a colleague from the Serbian deputation in

from 1821 until 1826, though Jakovljević died in 1824. Avram Petronijević founded the first glass factory in Serbia in 1846. It was located between villages Mišević and Belica, near the town of Jagodina. It worked well in the beginning, but ultimately wasn't competitive with glass products from Austria, and didn't last for long after Petronijević's death.

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Biography of Avram Petronijević

Avram Petronijević„Radovan Kalabić: Avram Petronijević (1791-1852)“
{{DEFAULTSORT:Petronijevic, Avram 1791 births 1852 deaths Prime ministers of Serbia Government ministers of Serbia Foreign ministers of Serbia People from Kladovo 19th-century Serbian people People from the Principality of Serbia