Janko Đurđević ( sr-Cyrl, Јанко Ђурђевић; c. 1770 – 1828) was a representative of the Smederevo nahiyah in the cabinets of

Matija Nenadović Matija Nenadović ( sr-cyrl, Матија Ненадовић, or Mateja Nenadović sr-cyr, Матеја Ненадовић; 26 February 1777 – 11 December 1854), also known as Prota Mateja, was a Serbian archpriest, writer, and politician who ...

Mladen Milovanović Mladen Milovanović ( sr-cyrl, Младен Миловановић; – 1823) was a Serbian merchant and politician who served as the prime minister of Serbia from 1807 to 1810 and again from 1813 to 1814. A notable voivode during the First Serb ...

, and Jakov Nenadović. He was a member of the Great Federal Court (Supreme Court) from 1811.

Biography

Janko Đurđević was born around 1770 in Konjska Reka, near Bajina Bašta,

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, at a time when, during

Karađorđe's Serbia Revolutionary Serbia ( sr, Устаничка Србија / Ustanička Srbija), or Karađorđe's Serbia ( sr, Карађорђева Србија / Karađorđeva Srbija), refers to the state established by the Serbian revolutionaries in Ottoman ...

, it was part of the Danube principality of the

Smederevo Smederevo ( sr-Cyrl, Смедерево, ) is a city and the administrative center of the Podunavlje District in eastern Serbia. It is situated on the right bank of the Danube, about downstream of the Serbian capital, Belgrade. According to ...

nahija. He was a legal advisor during the time of Karađorđe. In 1813, he fled to Austria and then emigrated to

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where he died in 1828. His contemporaries,

Vuk Karadžić Vuk Stefanović Karadžić ( sr-Cyrl, Вук Стефановић Караџић, ; 6 November 1787 (26 October OS)7 February 1864) was a Serbian philologist, anthropologist and linguist. He was one of the most important reformers of the mode ...

, and

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mention him in their respective memoirs. His son

Paun Janković Paun Janković ( sr-cyr, Паун Јанковић; Smederevo, 1808 – Smederevo, 25 July 1865) was a Serbian politician who held the post of Prime Minister of Serbia, Minister of Finance, Ministe of External affairs and Minister of Justice and ...

(1808-1865) was acting Prime Minister of Serbia in 1840.

Sources

Milan Đ. Milićević Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city has ...

, ''Pomenik znamenitih ljudi u srpskog narodu novijega doba,'' Vol 1 (Belgrade, 1888) * Milan Đ. Milićević,''Kneževina Srbija'' (Belgrade, 1878) * Lazar Arsenijević Batalaka, ''Istorija srpskog ustanka'' (Belgrade, 1898) * Konstantin N. Nenadović, ''Život i dela velikog Đorđa Petrovića Kara Đorđa Vrhovnog Vožda...'' (Vienna, 1884) * * *

References

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