Ljubomir "Ljuba" Tadić ( sr-cyr, Љубомир "Љуба" Тадић; 14 May 1925 – 31 December 2013) was a Serbian academic and politician.

Biography

He was born in Smriječno village near

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, then in the Kingdom Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He was a Belgrade Law School graduate and a professor of

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at the

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as well as a member of the

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. His father Pavle Tadić was a lieutenant of the

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in the wars against the

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. Pavle opened the first school in

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, during the

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. Tadić was one of the founders of the Democratic Party (DS) in

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in December 1989. He was one of the leaders of the

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movement in Serbia. Tadić was of the Piva Herzegovinian clan. Tadić was married to

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Nevenka Kićanović and had two children. His son

Boris Tadić Boris Tadić, (born 15 January 1958) is a Serbian politician who served as the president of Serbia from 2004 to 2012. Born in Sarajevo, he graduated from the University of Belgrade with a degree in psychology. He later worked as a journalist ...

served as the

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from 2004 to 2012. Ljuba Tadić died in

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, Serbia, aged 88.

External links

Tadić's article remembering Zoran ĐinđićSerbian Academy of Sciences and Arts membership page in Social Sciences
1925 births 2013 deaths People from Plužine Serbs of Montenegro Yugoslav Partisans members Democratic Party (Serbia) politicians Academic staff of the University of Belgrade Philosophy academics Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Serbian writers University of Belgrade Faculty of Law alumni University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy alumni Boris Tadić Burials at Belgrade New Cemetery {{Serbia-politician-stub