Mihajlo "Mićo" Ljubibratić ( sr-cyr, Мићо Љубибратић; 1839 – 26 February 1889) was a Serbian
vojvoda (military commander), Orthodox priest, writer and translator who participated in the many uprisings in the
Herzegovina
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region. He was the first person in the
Balkans
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to translate the
Quran
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into
Serbian.
Greek, Bulgarian, Romanian and Albanian translations would follow in the 20th century.
Life
Mihajlo Ljubibratić was born in
Ljubovo,
Trebinje (modern
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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). He joined
Luka Vukalović in the Herzegovinian Uprising (1857–1862).
He supported
Garibaldi in the Italian revolution. After the fall of the uprising in 1862, he went to
Serbia
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where he continued to organize the liberation of the Balkan peoples and also sought to recruit Slavic Muslims for the cause. In the
Herzegovina Uprising (1875-1878), the Serbian government, which could not publicly assist due to international pressure, secretly sent Ljubibratić and others to lead the uprising. In March 1876, he fought in Bosnia, but was captured and interrogated by the Austrians. In March 1877, he returned to Serbia, and upon the
Herzegovina-Boka Uprising (1882), he devoted himself to establish an administrative body and the cooperation of Serbs and Muslims (i.e.
Bosniaks
The Bosniaks (, Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Бошњаци, ; , ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia (region), Bosnia, today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and who sha ...
) against the
Austro-Hungarians.
See also
*
Stevan Šupljikac, ''voivode'' in Austrian service, the first Duke of
Serbian Vojvodina
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(1848)
References
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1839 births
1889 deaths
People from Trebinje
Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
19th-century Serbian people
Serbian military leaders
Serbian revolutionaries
Armed priests
Quran translators
19th-century translators