Ivan Ivanić (
Bačko Gradište
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,
Bečej
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History
Bečej was mentioned f ...
,
Austria-Hungary
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, 24 April 1867 –
Belgrade
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,
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
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, 31 January 1935) was a
Serbian
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** Serbian language
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diplomat of the
Kingdom of Serbia
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and author of numerous
ethnographical works about Serbia and the
Balkans
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. He also wrote
travel literature
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History
Early examples of travel literature include the '' Periplus of the Erythraean Sea'' (generally considered a ...
about the region of
Old Serbia
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The term does ...
.
Biography
He began his diplomatic career as a secretary in the Serbian consulate in Priština. He later became
vice consul
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A consu ...
and consul in Priština and Skopje (
Kosovo Vilayet). He was later appointed as consul in
Bitola
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(then
Monastir Vilayet
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).
He participated in both public and secret Serbian activities to provide assistance to Macedonian rebels against the
Ottoman Empire
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. He met his wife
Delfa in
Skopje
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, where she was a teacher between 1900 and 1903. She was one of the founders of the
Circle of Serbian Sisters (), an organization whose establishment was proposed by Ivan Ivanić together with
Branislav Nušić
Branislav Nušić ( sr-Cyrl, Бранислав Нушић, ; – 19 January 1938) was a Serbian playwright, satirist, essayist, novelist and founder of Modern Rhetoric, modern rhetoric in Serbia. He also worked as a journalist and a civil ...
. They were
childless
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The sudden passing of a teenage girl unsettles the four adults in her life. Jarred by ...
and the name of their stepdaughter was Ivanka.
On 29 November 1912 he was appointed as the first governor of the
Durrës County
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, while his wife Delfa led the city hospital in
Durrës
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.
Besides his work as diplomat, Ivanić was editor of numerous magazines published in Serbian. In April 1887 he became the editor of ''"Sremac"''. Ivanić was one of two editors of the first issue of the magazine "''Vardar''". He also edited the magazine "Golub" which was published in 1905 in
Istanbul
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and distributed to Serbs in the Ottoman Empire.
Ivanić added his personal notes in works about Kosovo, Macedonia and the
Serbian Orthodox Church
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and those notes were subject of different opinions of later researchers.
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Diplomats for the Kingdom of Serbia
Serbian journalists
Serbian non-fiction writers
Serbian ethnographers
20th-century Serbian historians
Serbian male short story writers
Serbian short story writers
1867 births
1935 deaths
Serbian travel writers
Serbian Austro-Hungarians
People from Bečej
People from the Kingdom of Serbia
Serbian male non-fiction writers
19th-century Serbian historians