Ljubomir Stojanović

Ljubomir Stojanović (Template:Lang-sr, sometimes mentioned as Ljuba Stojanovic) (6 August 1860, Užice – 16 June 1930) was Serbian statesman, politician, philologist and a member of the Serbian Royal Academy.

Biography

Stojanović was a philologist and historian, who graduated from the School of Philosophy at the High School in Belgrade (Template:Lang-sr, a Grande École). After studies in Belgrade he went on to post-graduate studies in Vienna, St. Petersburg and Leipzig. At first a grammar school professor, he was appointed university professor at the High School in Belgrade (1891-1899). Opposed to the royal absolutism of King Aleksandar I Obrenović, Stojanović joined the People's Radical Party of Nikola Pašić in 1897.

After the split with the older generation of Radicals who accepted the compromise with the Crown in 1901, Stojanović led the younger group of Radicals, a semi-independent faction since 1901 which eventually became independent in 1905. As a founding member and a leader of the Independent Radical Party in Serbia, Stojanović was several times minister of Education and Religious Affairs (1903, 1904, 1906, 1909), and Prime Minister from 29 May 1905 to 14 March 1906, during the 'Golden Age of Serbia' (1903-1914), under the democratic and constitutional rule of King Peter I Karađorđević.

After the First World War Stojanović was one of the founders of the Republican Party and its first president. Stojanović was often described as a puritan moralist in politics.

Secretary of the Serbian Royal Academy, future Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts from 1913 to 1923, Stojanović was very prolific in various scientific fields: he published a dozen volumes of medieval Serbian manuscripts and documents: Miroslavljevo Jevandjelje (Miroslav Gospel), Stari srpski zapisi i natpisi (Old Serbian inscriptions and records) (6 vol.), medieval Serbian charters and letters as well as medieval Serbian genealogies and annals. Stojanović published the catalogues of medieval Serbian manuscripts and old books in the National Library of Serbia in Belgrade as well as the catalogue of manuscript collection at the Serbian Royal Academy.

A scholar of enormous erudition, energy and determination, Stojanović published 17 volumes of works of Vuk St. Karadžić, the main reformer of the Serbian alphabet, including several volumes of his extensive correspondence. Stojanović wrote grammar textbooks for Serbian secondary schools, published important scholarly studies of old Serbian printing MA, Serbian churches from 15th to 16th century, the Archbishop Danilo II (Template:Lang-sr). His most important scholarly work is an extensive and detailed biography of Vuk St. Karadžić, based on mostly unused sources.

Major works

• Lekcije iz srpskoga jezika za I razred gimnazije, sastavio Ljub. Stojanović, U Beogradu, u Državnoj štampariji kraljevine Srbije, 1891.
• Katalog rukopisa i starih štampanih knjiga, zbirka Srpske Kraljevske Akademije, sast. Ljub. Stojanović, Srpska kraljevska akademija, Beograd : Državna štamparija, 1901.
• Miroslavljevo jevanđelje ( Évangéliaire ancien serbe du prince Miroslav), Preface (in Serbian and French) and notes (pp. 203–229) by Ljubomir Stojanović. - "Édition de sa majesté Alexandre I roi de Serbie" p. [iv], Fotografska reprodukcija i štampa c. i k. dvorskog umetničkog zavoda Angerera i Gešla, u Beču, 1897.
• Katalog Narodne biblioteke u Beogradu, Rukopisi i stare štampane knjige, sastavio Lj. Stojanović, Beograd, Državna štamparija 1903.
• Republikanski pogledi na nekoliko savremenih pitanja, Ljub. Stojanović, Beograd, Izd. Gece Kona, 1920.
• Stari srpski rodoslovi i letopisi, par Ljubomir Stojanović, Sr. Karlovci : Srpska kraljevska akademija, 1927.
• Stari srpski zapisi i natpisi, vol. I- VI, sredio ih Ljub. Stojanović, Srpska kraljevska akademija,Sr. Karlovci : Štampano u Srpskoj manastirskoj štampariji, 1926.
• Stare srpske povelje i pisma. Knjiga I, Dubrovnik i susedi njegovi. Drugi deo, sredio Ljub. Stojanović, Beograd - Sr. Karlovci : Štampano u Srpskoj manastirskoj štampariji, 1934.
• Život i rad Vuka Stefanovića Karadžića (26. okt. 1787 - 26. jan. 1864), Beograd, U Knj. Gece Kona, 1924, XXIV-783 p.
• Srpska gramatika za III razred gimnazije, Deseto izdanje, Beograd, Izd. Gece Kona, 1921.

Legacy

He is included in The 100 most prominent Serbs.

Bibliography

• Milan Grol: "The Temptations of democracy", Službeni Glasnik, 2006.
• Dušan T. Bataković, Yougoslavie. Nations, religions, idéologies, Lausanne, L'Age d'Homme; 1994.
• Dušan T. Bataković (dir.), Histoire du peuple serbe, Lausanne, L'Age d'Homme 2005.

See also

• List of Prime Ministers of Serbia