Miloš S. Milojević ( sr-Cyrl, Милош С. Милојевић; 16 October 1840 – 24 June 1897) was a Serbian

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, writer and politician. His work has been described as "at a ridge between history and literature", mostly for his travel-recording genre.

Biography

Miloš S. Milojević, son of a parish priest, was born at Crna Bara in

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, on 16 October 1840. He graduated with a law degree from

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's Velika škola in 1862; studied philosophy, philology and history at the

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, from 1862 to 1865. His professor was

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. He didn't wait to graduate and in 1866 Milojević returned to Serbia to work for the government judicial system, and later taught at high schools in

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and

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. He died in Belgrade on 24 June 1897. He was buried in

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Historiography

In 1887 his approach to historiography was challenged and debated by

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and Ljubomir Kovačević and eventually proved erroneous through critical methods, though his opus is not completely abandoned. He travelled to the

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region from 1871 to 1877 and left three volumes of data and maps which testify that Serbs were the majority and Albanians the minority population. His demographic-statistical structure matched an independent census taken by the Austrian authorities at about the same time.

Works

* ''Odlomci istorije Srba i srpskih - jugoslavenskih - zemalja u Turskoj i Austriji'', Beograd, 1872. * ''Pesme i običaji ukupnog naroda srpskog'' * ''Putopisi dela prave - Stare Srbije'' * ''Naši manastiri i kaluđerstvo'' * ''Prva dečanska hrisovulja'' * ''Druga dečanska hrisovulja''

Translations from Russian

* ''Običaji velikorusa'' * ''Maljuta Skuratov'' (in two volumes)

Manuscripts

* ''Putopise'' (in nine segments) * ''Četvrta knjiga pesama i običaja'' * ''Nemanjića'' * ''Prizrenska tapija'' * ''Pravila svete Petke paraskeve srpske'' * ''Pravila svetom Simenu srpskom'' * ''Opšti list iz Patrijaršije Pećske'' * ''Odgovor na izmišljotine u 10 i 12 broju Budućnosti, pod imenom: Naša agitacija na istok''

References