Vojislav Šola ( sr-Cyrl, Војислав Шола; 1863 – 1921) was a Serbian

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, national and political worker from

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Life

Vojislav Šola was born and educated in

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, at the time in the

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. Already at the age of 19 (1882) he was imprisoned by the Austro-Hungarian administration in the province of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a prominent national worker and member Mostar church-school municipalities. "The municipality decided to welcome the delegates as solemnly as possible, considering them its guests with a torchlight procession was prepared in their honor, and its member Vojislav Šola gave speeches" introducing the new metropolitan Leontije Radulović, who replaced metropolitan Ignatije Ikonomidis. In 1896, Šola became the president of that municipality and, together with Gligorije Jeftanović, led the struggle of Serbs for church-school autonomy, which ended in 1905 by obtaining some privileges from the monarchy. He was elected in 1910 in the

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and was vice-president until 1913, and did not pass the mandate. Younger Serbs and public workers in the province of Bosnia-Herzegovina found Vojislav Šola too lenient with Austria-Hungary. During

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the parliament was closed, and 1918, he became a member of the National Council for Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was then elected as a Provisional People's Representation in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Šola was active in organizing the

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in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in 1920 he withdrew from political life altogether. Vojislav Šola died in 1921 in

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, at the time in the

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Literature

* Jovan M. Popović, ''Neimari Jugoslavije'', Belgrade 1934, p. 395 - 396.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sola, Vojislav 1863 births 1921 deaths Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina People from Mostar People from Austria-Hungary