Tugomir Marko Alaupović (18 August 1870 – 9 April 1958) was a Yugoslav educator, poet, and politician, serving as Minister of Religion in the government of the

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. He wrote several literary works that have been translated into French, German, Czech, and Italian. He was one of the initiators of the Croatian Society for the "Setting up of Children in Crafts and Trade" in Sarajevo and later initiated the change of the society name to

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. He was a member of the Main Board of the Serbian St. Sava Society in

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. On 16 January 1934, after a serious operation, in a letter to

Tihomir Đorđević Tihomir Đorđević (Knjaževac, Principality of Serbia, 19 February 1868 — Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 28 May 1944) was a Serbian ethnologist, folklorist, cultural historian and professor at the University of Belgrade. Biography He recei ...

, a prominent Serbian ethnologist, he said:

Early life

Descended from a Bosnian noble family, Alaupović was born in Dolac near

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in modern-day

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in 1870. He lost his father early and was raised by his mother, Ivka (). During his childhood, he attended school with the

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, but due to illness, he was not able to regularly attend. He attended gymnasium first in Travnik before attending the classical gymnasium in

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. He ultimately graduated in Zagreb in 1890. After completing gymnasium, he studied

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and

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at the

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before furthering his studies in

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in 1891. There, received his doctorate in October 1894 from

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after he successfully defended his dissertation, entitled "Vila Slovinka — by

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, with Special Reference to

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in the Twelfth Canto" ().

Career

In 1894, Alaupović began teaching as a substitute at the classical gymnasium in Sarajevo, teaching Croatian,

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, and

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until 1910. Once he had passed his professorial examination, he also began teaching at the Sarajevo Technical School. There, he became friends with Fra

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and

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. In 1910, he became the principal at the Tuzla Gymnasium before moving on to work as an advisor to the Ministry of Education and supervisor for secondary schooling throughout the Austrian-ruled

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. In 1915, due to his

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beliefs, he was relieved of duty and tried for

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. He was released, but in 1916, he was forced to retire and interned at a Franciscan monastery in Sarajevo. At the end of 1917, he returned to

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and from mid-1918 until the end of

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, worked as the secretary of

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. The same year, he became a member of the People's Council of the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, a commissioner for education and worship, and was reactivated by a decree of the People's Government for Bosnia and Herzegovina. From then until 1920, he served as the Minister of Religion during the first government of the

, before becoming head of the commission for education and temporary provincial governor for Croatia-Slavonia. In 1922, he was again forced into retirement by decree before being deactivated again, becoming vice president of the State Council and board member for the Democratic Party. In 1929, Alaupović retired of his own volition, although he continued to be involved as a board member for the Democratic Party in Belgrade until he left for Zagreb in 1931. He lived there until he died on 9 April 1958.

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