Svetolik Radovanović ( Prćilovica,

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, 23 March 1863 –

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, 17 July 1928) was a Serbian state

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, a member of the

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, a professor at the

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, and the Minister of National Economy of the

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(1904-1905). With

Jovan Žujović Jovan M. Žujović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован M. Жујовић; 18 October 1856 – 19 July 1936) was a Serbian geologist and anthropologist, known as a pioneer in geology, paleontology and craniometry in Serbia. He was a professor at Belgra ...

, he began collecting data on earthquakes, therefore, initiating the development of

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in Serbia.

Career

At the election assembly on 5 February 1897, he was elected a corresponding member of the Serbian Royal Academy (

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), and on 31 January 1902, he became a regular member. He is the founder of Serbian

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. He reformed the Serbian mining and forestry legislation, and in 1892, together with the geologist Jovan Žujović, he founded the Serbian Geological Society. As a minister, he passed the first rules of the mining and fraternal treasury for the insurance of miners, established Sunday-holiday schools for apprentices and issued the first yearbook of the mining department of the Ministry of Economy. His works on the study of

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creations in eastern Serbia are well known.

Works (partial list)

* ''Uvod u geologiju istočne Srbije'' (Introduction to the geology of eastern Serbia); * ''O tercijeru Timočke krajine'' (On the Tertiary of the Timok Region); * ''O trusu'' * ''Podzemne vode''(Underground waters); * ''Lijas kod Rgotine'' (Lijas near Rgotina); * ''Lijas kod Dobre'' (Lijas near Dobra); * ''Crnajka s naročitim obzirom na njen Doger''; * ''Donjolijaska fauna sa Vrške Čuke'' (Lower Lija fauna from Vrška Čuk); * ''Kelovej kod Vrške Čuke'' (Kelovej near Vrška Čuka); * ''Belemnites ferraginensis nov. spec. iz klauskih slojeva istočne Srbije'' (''Belemnites ferraginensis'' nov. spec. from the Klaus strata of eastern Serbia); * ''O velikom šarijažu u istočnoj Srbiji'' (On the Great Sharia in Eastern Serbia).

Literature

* Small Encyclopedia of Education - General Encyclopedia (A-L). Publishing company ''Prosveta'', Belgrade, 1959.

References

* Translated and adapted from The Serbian Wikipedia 1863 births 1928 deaths Serbian geologists People from Aleksinac People from the Kingdom of Serbia Yugoslav geologists {{Geologist-stub

Career

Works (partial list)

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