Ljubomir Stojanović ( sr-cyr, Љубомир Стојановић, sometimes mentioned as ''Ljuba Stojanovic'') (6 August 1860,

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– 16 June 1930) was a Serbian politician,

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and academic.

Biography

Stojanović was a philologist and historian, who graduated from the School of Philosophy at the

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''). After studies in Belgrade he went on to post-graduate studies in

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. At first a grammar school professor, he was appointed university professor at his ''alma mater'', the Grandes écoles (1891-1899). Opposed to the royal absolutism of King Aleksandar I Obrenović, Stojanović joined the

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in 1897. After the split with the older generation of Radicals who accepted the compromise with the Crown in 1901, Stojanović led the younger group of Radicals, forming the Independent Radical Party (''Samostalna radikalna stranka''). As a founding member and a leader of the Independent Radical Party in Serbia, Stojanović was several times Minister of Education and Religious Affairs (1903, 1904, 1906, 1909), and Prime Minister from May 1905 to March 1906, under the democratic and constitutional rule of King Peter I Karađorđević. After the First World War Stojanović was one of the founders of the

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and its first president. Stojanović was often described as a puritan moralist in politics. From 1913 to 1923 he was Secretary of the Serbian Royal Academy, future

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. Stojanović was very prolific in various scientific fields, publishing a dozen volumes of medieval Serbian manuscripts and documents including ''Miroslavljevo Jevandjelje'' (

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), and ''Stari srpski zapisi i natpisi'' (Old Serbian inscriptions and records) (in six volumes), along with medieval Serbian charters and letters as well as medieval Serbian genealogies and annals. Stojanović published the catalogues of medieval Serbian manuscripts and old books in the

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in Belgrade as well as the catalogue of manuscript collection at the Serbian Royal Academy. A scholar of enormous erudition, energy and determination, Stojanović published 17 volumes of works of Vuk St. Karadžić, the main reformer of the Serbian alphabet, including several volumes of his extensive correspondence. He also wrote a detailed biography on Karadžić. Stojanović wrote grammar textbooks for Serbian secondary schools, published important scholarly studies of old Serbian

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MA, Serbian churches from 15th to 16th century, the Archbishop Danilo II ().

Selected works

*''Lekcije iz srpskoga jezika za I razred gimnazije'', sastavio Ljub. Stojanović, Belgrade, u Državnoj štampariji kraljevine Srbije, 1891. *''Katalog rukopisa i starih štampanih knjiga, zbirka Srpske Kraljevske Akademije'', sast. Ljub. Stojanović, Srpska kraljevska akademija, Belgrade, Državna štamparija, 1901. *''Miroslavljevo jevanđelje ( Évangéliaire ancien serbe du prince Miroslav)'', Preface (in Serbian and French) and notes (pp. 203–229) by Ljubomir Stojanović. - "Édition de sa majesté Alexandre I roi de Serbie" p. v Fotografska reprodukcija i štampa c. i k. dvorskog umetničkog zavoda Angerera i Gešla, Vienna, 1897. *''Katalog Narodne biblioteke u Beogradu, Rukopisi i stare štampane knjige'', edited by Ljomir Stojanović, Belgrade, Državna štamparija 1903. *''Republikanski pogledi na nekoliko savremenih pitanja'', Ljub. Stojanović, Belgrade, Geca Kon Publishing House, 1920. *''Stari srpski rodoslovi i letopisi'', par Ljubomir Stojanović, Sremski Karlovci, Srpska kraljevska akademija, 1927. *''Stari srpski zapisi i natpisi'', vol. I- VI, edited and composed byLjubomir Stojanović, Srpska kraljevska akademija, Sremski Karlovci, Srpska manastirska štamparijia, 1926. *''Stare srpske povelje i pisma. Knjiga I, Dubrovnik i susedi njegovi''. Drugi deo, edited and composed by Ljubomir Stojanović, Belgrade - Sremski Karlovci, Srpska manastirska štamparijia, 1934. *''Život i rad Vuka Stefanovića Karadžića (26. okt. 1787 - 26. jan. 1864)'', Belgrade, Geca Kon Publishing House, 1924, XXIV-783 p. *''Srpska gramatika za III razred gimnazije'', Belgrade, Geca Kon Publishing House, 1921.

Legacy

He is included in

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Selected works

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