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Arno Gujon was born on 27th november 1985. in France in the city Grenoble. As the youngest of three children, he grew up in a family that cherished tradition, patriotism and historical friendship of Serbia and France. Because of that, he has different views on the events happening in Yugoslavia than other people from the West. In addition to French she knows English, Serbian and Russian language. His wife is Irina Gajic,a Serbian woman born in France, and with her he has 2 daughters, Milena and Irena.

The first signs that showed that he will become what he is now came up when he was 14 years old. At the time the bombings in Serbia was happening and in history class he stood up to his teacher with a different opinion. The teacher advocated for war but Arno was for peace and justice for Serbian people. His history teacher then justified the crime by saying “RTS became the military target because they broadcast propaganda”. Grujon then answered: “The media house, whatever its like, cannot become the military target and by killing civilians and innocent people we do not do any charity work. The French media also do propaganda but nobody bombs them because of it”. The teacher then wanted to kick him out of the class.

When in 2004 the antiserbian programs were happening in Kosovo and Metohija, he decided to get help for the victims. He started an organization “Solidarity for Kosovo”. He volunteered at it fir seven years and then became the director. The first time he came to Serbia with his brother Bertran and two other friends with charity help that was collected with the support of 12,000 donors. The small organization by the Gujon brothers became one of the biggest charity organizations on Balkan. They organized 44 toe trucks of charity, financed alot of projects, build farms, dairy farms, greenhouses, bought farm animals, renovated schools, hospitals and health centers. The combined value of the help is 5.5 million euros.

From 2007 to 2010, he worked as an engineer in Loreal, Paris, in a chamber of commerce in Bordo, as a Physics teacher in a French school and as a coordinator of quality in Zvornik.

He was invited to be a participant of a company “Lets care for Serbian Language“, where after two years he became the face of the company. He is a frequent guest of Cultural Centers, Universities and High Schools where he talks about his experience in charity work. He started an association INOMS ( Initiation for birth rate and keeping the young in Serbia). He wrote the book “All my roads lead to Serbia” where he explains the reasons that made him to engage for Serbian people. He organized the filming of the documentary about life in Kosovo that was played 4 times on French television and 2 times on Serbian television. He edits the magazine “Solidarity for Kosovo” that comes out for sale every 3rd in the month in 15000 copies in France.

Since 2012. he lives in Serbia with his family, and since 2015 he is a Serbian citizen based on his merits in yearslong charity work.

Bojovic Marta

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Thinking about who to present in this essay about a person who is not originally from our country, but left a certain contribution to Serbia, I found out that such individuals are rare, but exists in many nations and epochs and from their greatness and diversity depends the importance of the particular nation and the significance of an epoch. Sometimes it is about free lencers  who braking through  borders on its own and open expanse, most often unaware of the far-reaching extent of their significance, but in their creation they only follow their inner voice. One of those individuals is Ivan Meštrović, Yugoslav and Croatian sculptor and architect. He was born in the town of Vrpolje in Slavonia, in  Catholic rural family, and he spent his childhood in Dalmatia, the native place of his parents. As a child he guarded sheep and listened to epic poetry, folk songs and historical ballads and began with the carving of small objects of wood and soft stone. At the age of sixteen he was accepted as stonecutter apprentice in Split and, thanks to the enterprising and kindness of his boss and boss’s wife, Meštrovic received the oportunity of further schooling in Vienna at the Academy of Fine Arts, thanks to the scholarship of the Austrian mine owner. Since he didn’t know German language, he had to learn German quickly from scratch and, also, he had to adjust to the new environment. His first exibition was established in Vienna with the Secession Group and his work quickly became popular, so he had opened door for other international exhibitions in Paris, Rome, London, Cannes, Switzerland. During his studies in Vienna, he met Ruža Klein, girl who he married and followed him during international exhibitions. Before the First World War, he lived and created in Paris and Rome, and had already gained an international reputation. After the war ended, he moved back home to the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and met the second love of his life, Olga Kesterčanek, whom he married and received four children. He became a professor and later the director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, and proceeded to build numerous internationally renowned works, continued to travel to post his exhibits around the world. However, as he condemned the Italian intention to assimilate Dalmatia and rejected Hitler's invitation to visit Berlin, he was imprisoned during World War II, but managed to escape to Venice and Rome due to the Vatican’s help. After the war ended, he received an invitation to return to Yugoslavia, but refused to do so, because he didn’t want to live in the communist country. The University of Syracuse offered him the professorship and he moved to the United States. He also was a professor at Notre Dame University. It is very interesting that, although he did not want to live in the communist country, at the request of Yugoslav cultural activists, he sent 59 statues from the United States to Yugoslavia (including the monument of Petar Petrović-Njegoš) and an additional 400 sculptures and numerous drawings. His most famous works are in Belgrade, and they represent extremely large cultural heritage and historical value.

The most famous and popular work is The Statue of Victor, which is in the same time a symbol of Belgrade. Belgrade’s officials ordered a monument which would represent a victory of Serbia over the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian military. The idea  was to build a monumental fountain in Terazije as a symbol of triumph in I Balkan War. In the center of a pool of water there was going to be a five-story pillar, to symbolize five centuries of slavery and the imposing Victor on the top. After eight months of hard work by Meštrović, the sculpture of the Victor was sent to Czech Republic to be cast. However, seeing in the meantime The First World War began, the sculpture remained there until 1927 when it was finally decided that it should be set up. Since there were any funding for initially idea of buliding fountain, the Statue of Victor was set up in Terazije on pedestral. But the problems seemed to only begin then, because the entire township rose up against it, morally outraged. A nude man in the center of Belgrade was described as a mockery of the city, an undignified symbol that would, apparently have a poor influence on the morality of Serbian girls, while the ladies would shield their eyes when passing by it. The newspaper had all kinds of words to say about it. And while certain individuals from the elite layers of society tried to defend the artstyle of the famous sculptor, they wondered more and more often why the Serbian “Victor” isn’t wearing his Serbian hat and shoes. There was such a commotion over it, that a committee was founded to decide the fate of the Victor. It ended up in upper Kalemegdan as a symbol of Southern Slavs uniting. Even though many today think that the monument was set upon its 17m pillar in order to be visible from all parts of the city, it was actually done in order to move the nude Victor as far away as possible.  After its new circumstances – the victory over the Austro-Hungarians – and the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croatia and Slovenians, it was decided that the monument should stand in Belgrade’s fortress that was in the hands of the Turks for so long and served as only the place where Serbs were taken to be tortured or executed. And so our monument finally took its place, symbolizing the end of feudalism, victory, unification. The Gray falcon on his left arm never sleeps and watches the dark forces in order for the sword in his right hand to overcome and chase them away. According to the some legend story, the front of the nude statue is turned to Vienna direction, and background to the Istanbul. The monument was finally unveiled in 1928. on the ten-year anniversary of the Thessaloniki front.

Monument to the Unnamed hero on the top of Avala is also a master piece of Meštrović, built in the form of a Greek temple with eight caryatides, symboled by the mothers of the suffering soldiers. He found inspiration in the tomb of the Persian ruler of Kiera the Great. It is interesting that the King Alexander I was inititated building of this monument. But the story of the monument began a few decades earlier when the people from surrounding villages started an initiative to construct a monument to the unnamed Serbian soldier whose grave was discovered there. It was a soldier who was struck by an Austro-Hungarian grenade. He was buried by the Germans there in 1915, in the crater of the explosion that killed him and marked his gravesite with the words “Ein unbekannter serbischer Soldat”, which means “unknown Serbian soldier”. When the committee in 1921 dug up the hero’s grave, they found that his remains were buried without the left part of his chest that was blown up by the grenade and his head was laid upon the grenade with which he was buried. The remains indicated it was a very young man or a boy, even. He didn’t have his dog tags, so it’s assumed he belonged to the third conscription wave which was recruited hastily, so there was no time to make name tags. What helped the soldier be identified as a Serbian soldier were the shoes and the bullets he was squeezing in his hand that belonged to the Serbian army.

Monument of gratitude to France on Belgrade fortress Kalemegdan is another famous work of Ivan Meštrović. It depicts a sculpture of a strong woman with a sword in her hand symbolizing France that is running for help and defending Serbia. On the east side of the pillar there is a relief of a sitting woman, the symbol of Sorbonne and the Serbian youth education in France, while on the other side there are Serbian and French soldiers, a symbol of cooperating to breach the Thessaloniki front.

Kalemegdan is a true treasure trove of works made by this famous sculptor as well as his third biggest achievement, the sculpture called “The Angel of Death”, almost 4m tall. It belongs to the architectural-sculpture complex “Vidovdan temple” that Ivan Meštrović worked on throughout his lifetime, but never fully completed. Many of those sculptures remain in the National museum today. The Angel was created in 1911, just before an exhibition in Rome. It spent a lot of time in Opovo and was rediscovered a full century after it was created, in Belgrade in front of the art pavilion “Cvijeta Zuzoric”.

In Belgrade we can also see the works of Ivan Meštrović at the National museum whose entrance is currently adorned by his caryatides and where there are also monuments such as Kosovka girl, Miloš Obilić, Widow, Kraljević Marko, Srđa Zlopogleđa. One casting of Nikola Tesla’s bust who was a good friend of Meštrović and who asked him to build a monument of him is also located at Nikola Tesla’s museum, and the other is in Niagara.  Of course it should be mentioned his works in Novi Sad (Monument of Svetozar Miletić) and Čačak (Nadežda Petrović).

Ivan Meštrović passed away in the United States, in the state of Indiana, after losing two of his four children. To memorialize his children, he made four clay sculptures. The remains were transferred to Dalmatia, where his mausoleum is. His remains were interred at a mausoleum in his childhood home of Dalmatia.

Buric Marko

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Nikolai Krasnov was a Russian architect who had a huge impact on the Belgrade. One of the most important figures for Serbian post-war architecture.  He was born on October 23, 1864. in the suburbs of Moscow. He graduated at the Moscow ArtAcademy in  1885. He was building representative facilities for the nobility and elite.

After the October Revolution in 1917, the White Russians, defeated in the Civil War, migrated to Balkan . Among them was Nikolai Krasnov. He came to Belgrade in 1922. Soon, he becomes a respected state architect. Plastic treatment on facade marked the entire era of Serbian architecture.                                                                                                           His most important projects are:

·   Reconstruction of Church Ružica at the Belgrade Fortress 1924.Thebronze sculptures of Serbian warriors, which are in front of the church entrance, are also his work.

·       The Ministry of finance of Yugoslavia at the corner of the Nemanjina and Kneza Milosa was built between 1926 and 1928. Today it´s cabinet of the president of Serbia.

·       Ministry of Forests and Minerals and the Ministry of Agriculture and Platoon of Yugoslavia is the most monumental object that Krasnov performed in Serbia. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is located in this palace today .

·      Building of the Archives of Serbia in Karnegijeva Street was completed in 1928. According to the project, the building is designed in the spirit of monumental academism with pronounced plastic decoration on the main facade.

·       Project and adaptation of Manjež Theatre, on the Street of Kralja Milana was done by Krasnov. Facade of Manjež was completed during 1928.Today it is the Jugoslovensko dramsko pozorište.

Cvetkovic Uros

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Momcilo, Momo, Kapor was a Serbian writer, painter and journalist.

He was born in Sarajevo in 1937. His father, Gojko, worked as a financial expert in Sarajevo, where he met his future wife, Bojan Kapoor. He was captured at the beginning of the war as a reserve officer in the Royal Army, and was taken to Ninberg for four full years. .April 1941, during the bombing of Sarajevo, a bomb fell on an old Turkish house where Mom's mother Bojan, Kapoor's grandmother and little Momo took refuge. All of them were killed except for him, who was protected by his mother by lying over him. he spends in Sarajevo with his grandmother's sister Janja Baros, and then comes in Beogard.

After graduation, Kapor decided to study painting. He graduated painting in 1961 at the Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts in the class of Professor Nedeljko Gvozdenovic with an average grade of 9.9. Momo Kapor gained great popularity through the texts of Notes of Ana, published in the magazine Bazar. a large number of novels and story collections, he is also the author of a large number of documentaries and television shows. evne cooperatives.

Momo Kapor has been a member of the Senate of the Republika Srpska and the Republika Srpska Academy of Sciences and Ethnicities since 1996. In Belgrade, he lived in Nebojsa 18, where a memorial plaque was erected on September 7, 2013.

He died in Beogarad, 3. He was buried in the Alley of Meritorious Citizens at the New Cemetery in Belgrade. He was also the recipient of numerous awards, including

1. Award of the National Library of Serbia for the most read book in 1993

2 "Svetozar Corovic Award" for best prose book

3 "Laza Kostic Award" for Novel 2001, Novi Sad

Cigoje Jelena

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Mira Adana Polak was born in 1942. in Budapest, Hungary. She grew up in Jerwish family and spent the first two years of her life in Subotica because her parents were concetration camp.  She finished primary and high school in Belgrade, and the universaty in Switzerland, where she perfected herself. Later she went to the UK, USA ... After graduation she got a job as a flight attendant. However, in 1971 she decided to engage in journalism at Television Belgrade.

Journalism allowed her to travel and get to know the whole world. She speaks 5 languages but even for the ones she doesn't know somehow tries to reach an understanding by first establishing emotional contact (head, hands ...). Since her father was a military doctor, she learned a lot from him and his profession and gained many contacts that helped her in interviews. She always said that a journalist must be brave, argumentativan and persistent, because it is the only way to get the interview. She knew all secrets about their guests (and received from them)  but she never told that to the audience. She did interviews with well-known people. She succeeded in journalism because of her Jewish connections (her origins) but also because of her personality.

She has brought a lot to Serbia. Although she was not born in Serbia, she always considered herself a Serb because she lived and worked there. Her most famous interviews are with: Jovanka Broz, Princess Yelisavet and her mother Princess Olga, Romanov family, Danil Kish, Boyko Borisov, Pahor, Indira Gandhi, Sopfia Loren, Kirk Douglas, Pavarotti, Ana Ivanovic, James Woods and many others.

She was the first journalist to interview Jovanka Broz twice and she has been at her home 12 times. She recorded the first audio track, where Jovanka's voice was actually heard, which almost no one could attain because she had isolated herself  after Tito's death. She was the only one in Serbia to record the relocation of King Nikola's relics to Bar. Everyone was wondering who she was, where she was from and she said: "I work for Belgrade Television." That was her life’s satisfaction. She made a report with Princess Yelisaveta in which she  reentered the White Palace for the first time since birth.  She had also  an interview with "The Man Who Said No to the Mafia“.  She thinks that this is one of her most interesting interviews. While she was interviewing him, he was surrounded by carabinieri. She is the first journalist and the woman who made reports with 🤬 patients. Yugoslavia knew nothing about that. She did it because no one else would and she loved the risk. There is no fear for her.  She is the only journalist whose journalistic material ended up in a movie theater.

I chose to write about her because she made a strong impression on me through her interviews and reports. It has brought something new to our country. Through her stories, I have learned that I should never undervalue our people and country and  I should always persevere in my goals.

Djeric Mina

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Emir Kusturica is a well known film director. He was born in 1954 in Sarajevo, were he grew up. He graduate in Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He was very successful during the studies and his movie 'Guernica' took first prize at Student's film festival in Karlovy Vary. After returning back to Sarajevo, he directed several TV movies. In 1981 he made a movie named 'Do you remember Dolly Bell?' which won the Silver Lion in the Venice Film Festival. His following movie 'When father was away on business'  was equally successful and won top prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1985, but was also nominated for the best foreign language film Oscar. He wrote screenplays for both movies. Then many other movies followed and the number of his rewards increased.
During the 1990s he moved to America and worked as a teacher at Columbia University in Newyork. There he made a highly regarded comedy 'Arizona Dream' starring Johnny Depp, Jerry Lewis and Faye Dunaway. This was the only movie about America.
He won Palme d'Or for 'Underground' and Silver Lion for best direction for 'Black Cat, White Cat'. Since 2008 he organizes annual Küstendorf Film Festival in Drvengrad- a village built for his movie 'Life is a Miracle'. He also had the idea to build another city, but this time in Višegrad. It's called Andrićgrad after our writer Ivo Andrić. Not only that he directed and wrote screenplays, but he was also an actor in some movies. 'On the Milky Road' was released in Venice Film Festival and he is starring next to Monica Bellucci and Sloboda Mićalović. His band is named 'Emir Kusturica & the No Smoking Orchestra'. His autobiography 'Death is an Unverified Rumour' is translated to several languages. In 2002 he became an UNICEF National Ambassador for Serbia. Kusturica is married to Maja and they have two children.Currently, he lives in Drvengrad, Belgrade and Paris.

Duka Milica

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John Frotingham (Brooklyn, 1879 - 1935) was an American lawyer, industrialist, contemporary and participant in the Great War and a great lover of music through which he learned about the fate of the Slovenian peoples in the war, which made him help them.

First, he donated $ 10,000, which was just the beginning. He then sent an entire hospital to Belgrade in November 1914, with the equipment and staff of a total of ten doctors and assistants.

The value of the hospital with all the supporting material was about $ 200,000 back then. Together with Helen King and Vida Metson, he founded an American upbringing home in Vranje.

It was a home for war orphans founded on October 4, 1918 after the liberation of Vranje from occupation in World War I.

Golovic Aleksa

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Peter Handke, born on December 6, 1942, in the German town of Griffen, an Austrian writer and activist, German-Slovenian origin. He grew up in East Berlin and Griffen, but throughout life has gained a great friendship with Serbia and Serbs.

Handke has repeatedly visited Serbia, and even visited Kosovo and wrote about it. As an important writer, he wrote about the Serbs in history and translated Serbian pieces to German language. His attitude towards the Serbs put him in an awkward position with major powers, who disagreed with his views. Because of his work, the Serbs have accepted and loved him.

During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Handke was in areas where conflicts were affected and then wrote an essay, "Justice for Serbia", in which he advocated for a different approach to Western countries, because, according to them, all the blame always falls on Serbia. Of course, this work caused a strong reaction from Western countries and on the overnight "banished from the global intellectual community in the excommunication in which he is up to today. After the first essay, there are other that followed the same subject.

Domestic and public side is still most shocked by his opinion about Milosevic, to whom he said he had only respect, because the only thing he wanted was to preserve Yugoslavia. Peter even visited Milosevic in The Hague and was on his funeral in 2006.

At the beginning of the bombarding of Yugoslavia, in April 1999, Handke came to Serbia and in protest returned Büchner prize and left the Catholic Church. Even from the German Minister Rudolf Scharping, demanded that he return all his books.

Handke essays on Serbia are the most fundamental and most substantial media criticism written in recent years. Serbia is just a metaphor for him, his rise to literary and philosophical discussions about the "de-realization of the world." Unlike his colleagues, who have turned against the Balkans, Handke has remained true to Serbia as a key metaphor for the distortion of the truth through the media.

"I wanted to write what I saw and felt then. I have no remorse, nor benefit from it all. I still think that I grammatically and rhythmically well done. I was actually terribly annoyed when all of the Balkan problems were written in journalistic language. Nobody is talking about the people who were standing along the street and selling petrol in plastic bottles to buy basic foodstuffs, nobody was not talking about the lives of people who are daily struggling with a thousand and one unresolved problem mere survival. I think the problem was that I spoke about it to my poetic language and to the west mind, because they spoke to their journalistic language. I made myself a problem, but it was not an issue, in fact, it was, but fruitful for me, because there is no art without problems. "

Handke was November 1, 2012 elected a foreign member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) and the charter for membership was extradited for him on 9 April 2013.

He got 29 May 2013, a special plaque 50. Dis spring and at that time translated the song "Maybe she's sleeping," to the German language and handwriting gave the public library in Čačak.

Peter Handke's 2019 won the Nobel Prize for literature, to which many complained, and some even commented that the Serbs got new Nobel Prize winner.

Another very interesting fact about him that lately is being investigated is that his Yugoslav passport from 1999 was discovered, which would mean that he had Yugoslav citizenship.

Jankovic Andjela

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He was born in the small town of Idvor (then Austria) on October 9, 1854. He was a scientist, inventor, professor and Honorary Consul of Serbia in the United States. He founded the Serbian People’s Alliance in America, of which he was the director himself for many years. He was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for his autobiographical work, From Immigrant to Inventor.

In the course of his scientific and experimental work he has made significant conclusions, important in the fields of multiple telegraphy, wireless telegraphy and telephony, as well as radiology and electrical engineering. Also important to mention are the “Pupin Coils”, which are one of his more famous discoveries. During his life he received many scientific awards, was a member of the American Academy of Sciences as well as of the Serbia Royal Academy. He was also an honorary doctorate at 18 universities.

In his book “From Immigrant to Inventor” he described his life path, and made it very clear that the birthplace could in no way affect the further course of life. Born in Idvor, he did not have the opportunity to educate at “colleges”, but as a smart young man he still managed to get closer to his goals. At only 17 years of age, the posh people of the then Austrian village sent him to the Czech Republic for further education when they saw with what ease he could endure primary education. There he held his views and never accepted something he disagreed with. The sad news of his father’s death soon followed, which greatly shocked him. With enormous courage, he sold his coat so he could afford a ticket to America that his mother did not know about.

Arriving in America, he had problems at the very beginning (they did not accept paperless people). Fortunately, an older married couple who met him along the way helped him get along. Initially, he worked and slept in a stable, from where he would not have made any progress if his associate had not made him aware of his “clarity”. He soon left his workplace and began to pursue school and later scientific studies.

His hard working that he had done trough all his life, led to him becoming one of the most respected and wealthiest people in the world of that time.

Trough his scientific work, research and experiments, he has contributed to the whole world and to Serbia.

The primary thing to consider in his research was the aforementioned “Pupin coils” and dozens of other breakthroughs that helped to develop most moderate technologies, most notably telephones and telegrams which were very in use at the time. Thanks to him, today we have the comfort of talking to people who are not physically close to us. It is important to note that during his studies in America, he met a future good friend of his, Woodrow Wilson, who later became President of the United States.

The acquaintance with Woodrow Wilson was not to mention for no reason, but rather, it is one of the things that has greatly influenced the current situation in the World, and we can with no second thoughts say that it has immensely contributed to Serbia itself. In an interview between the two, Michel Pupin requested that Idvor, his place of birth, which until then belonged to Austria, be annexed to Serbia, with a new redistribution of territory after the war. Thanks to his influence and power, today not only Idvor, but also the whole of Vojvodina are parts of Serbia.

Michael Pupin was one of the greatest, bravest people of this millennium. Thanks to him today we have a much more comfortable and beautiful life. We must never forget the works he has done for this world and the lesson he has given to young people and others in his autobiographical book.

Jankovic Mateja

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Aleksandar Vasilievich  Solovjev was a Russian historian, but also an expert for the Serbian medieval history and heraldry.

He was born in 1890 in a little settlement Calish next to Grodno, a part of Russia which nowadays belongs to Poland. His father was a supreme court judge in Warsaw, so that it is no a wander that Solovjev was inclined to legal sciences. He graduated at two faculties in Warsaw. In those times, Warsaw was a center of Slavic studies, where inter alia the history of medieval Serbia was studied. Having two diplomas young Solovjev easy became an assistant at the Faculty of Law in Warsaw, and later on he became a lecturer in Moscow.

However, the Soviet revolution in 1917 forced him to leave the Russia. He came and stayed in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians, which was open to the Russian refugees and especially to their experts, due to the inclination by the king Aleksandar toward them.

Solovjev was teaching the subject of the History of Slovenian Law at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade. Several Russian refugees were working at that faculty, among which were professors Taranovski and Troicki. He started to publish works in Serbian very soon. Serbs consider him as one of foreigners who were very important their country. He was the first one who was writing about the history of Serbian law. Solovjev put himself among the great experts for legal history of medieval Serbia by the two capital deeds. Those deeds are “Legislation of Stefan Dushan – Zar of the Serbs and Greeks” and “Code of Dushan”.

Solovjev married Natalija Rajevska in 1925, a daughter of advocate from Sankt-Peterburg, who was also a refugee from Russia. They firstly got a daughter who died as a baby and was buried at the New Cemetery in Belgrade. Two years later they got a son with name Aleksandar under the name of Serbian king, to whom they were grateful for the Serbian protection.

Professor Solovjev died in 1971 in Geneva, where he was driven out by communists from Yugoslavia after the Second World War.

Jovanovic Marija

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Gustavo Navaro is the Managing Director of HOLCIM Serbia. He always carries his native Argentina in his heart. No matter where in the world he is, he is sure to spend his retirement days there. As the director of the largest cement plant in Serbia, he brings investors to our country, despite the economic crisis in the last ten years.
It employs a large number of workers from Paracin and engages many Serbian companies as subcontractors of HOLCIN. Тhe most significant event of Gustav Navarо is the allocated funds for the development of the local community.
He believes that companies cannot solve the problems of one company, but they can invest the resources and make an effort to solve the problems of the community within which they operate, contributing to the community, or society at large, growing and strengthening with the company.

In Serbia, HOLCIM has signed a memorandum of intent with the Serbian Ministry of Science and Environment to participate in the IPPC Permit - Integrated Permit for Large Industrial Pollutants Project. The main backbone of this project is the natural resources that must be valued and preserved so that future generations can count on them.

The biggest investment is the collection of municipal waste and the accumulation of containers for villages; the purchase of garbage trucks, the design and construction of sewage in the rural area, and a project for the treatment of wastewater was launched.

€ 105.6 million has been invested in modernization of the technological process and environmental protection. The Serbian Chamber of Commerce ranks HOLCIM among 10 companies in the area of ​​corporate social responsibility.
About his first years in Serbia, when he was accommodated in Paracin, he points out about a small social environment: “I do not say that it is bad, on the contrary, everyone comes to you on the street, everyone knows you, they ask if something is necessary, but I still am a fan of big cities. I don't think I could ever live in the countryside. "

Kojic Nina

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Borislav Pekic was one of the most prominent Serbian writers of the 20th century, a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, academic and one of 13 intellectuals who restored the work of the Democratic Party.

He was born in Podgorica. Due to the nature of his father's business, Pekic moved often during his childhood. At the beginning of Second World War, his family was expelled from Montenegro to Serbia, and after the war he moved to Belgrade. In Belgrade, he went to the Third High School and during his education he discovered his love for literature.

He has written over 20 original screenplays, of which "Day Fourteen" represented Yugoslavia at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. He also wrote radio plays.

The first novel “ A Time of Miracles”, attracted a great deal of readers' attention. The second novel was "The Pilgrimage of Arseniy Egoyan" in which he gave a picture of a student protest in Yugoslavia. The novel received the Nin Award as the best Yugoslav novel that year.

He moved to London in 1971. After more than two decades, the preparation of "The Golden Fleece" first came to readers in 1978, and later to the other 6 volumes. He became one of the most prominent Serbian writers and received the Njegos Award as one of the top contemporary prose writers in Yugoslavia.

He decided to create his new vision of the future, thus avoiding the restrictions of the "historical model". Thus, three books were created: the genre-novel "Rabies", the anthropological novel "1999" and the epic "Atlantis". "Rabies" was a bestseller. “Atlantida” was selected as the most widely read novel and received the Belgrade Winners Award.

He has also received awards from the Serbian Writers' Association Award, the Milos Crnjanski Award for the trilogy "Years eaten by grasshoppers", the May Handshake Award for his literary and cultural achievements.

Today, several schools bear his name, which one is in Belgrade and a monument has been built on Cvetni trg.

Lazic Marija

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Branko Radicevic was born in Slavonski Brod on March 28, 1824. He was a Serbian romantic poet. He also wrote love, patriotic and after he became ill, he began to write elegy songs.

As he was born on the eve of St. Alexius, he was named after him, but before his first book was published he changed his name to Branko. He moved to Zemun with his family in 1830, where he finished elementary school.He attended the high school in Sremski Karlovci which had a big influence on his later works. He started law studies in Vienna, but after 3 years he left college and joined the circle of Vuk associates and friends.

After suffering from tuberculosis in Vienna in 1849, he started medical studies, but continued to pursue literature. He died of tuberculosis in Vienna when he was 29, and his wish was to be buried at Strazilovo, which was done.

Today, squares in Sremski Karlovci and Zemun are named after him, as well as elementary schools in Vranje and Smederevo. The monument was built in Slavonski Brod in 1984, in honour of Branko Radicevic.

Along with Djura Danicic, Branko Radicevic was a follower of Vuk’s reform of the Serbian orthography and the introduction of the vernacular into literature. He was the most prominent poet of Serbian romanticism, and with his poems with distinctly lyrical motifs and mood, he entered the national literature for the first time.

He wrote his collection entitled „Poems“ in the vernacular. He published his first book of poems in Vienna in 1847, when the Vuk’s translation of the „New Testament“ was published, as well as when Danicic’s „War of the Serbian language and spelling“ and Njegos’s „The Mountain Wreath" were issued. This 1847. is considered the year of unofficial Vuk’s victory.

His first collection of the poems proved that folk songs could be sung in folk language. He has written the most of songs such as „As I Thought of Dying“ and „The Parting of School-friends“ as elegies and these are one of his most famous songs.

Lukic Barbara

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Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan, Austrian Empire on July 10, 1856, and passed away in New York on January 7, 1943. During his 86 years of life, he has had many accomplishments, most notably his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

Childhood and Studies:

Nikola was the fourth child of five children of Milutin, a Serbian Orthodox priest and mother Georgina. When he was born he was all sick and weak and they thought that he would die soon. In the beginning, in addition to being ill, he was also considered to be less intelligent, proving otherwise by the age of 7 or 8 with his achievements in school. When he turned 17 he got cholera. He was sick for 9 months and at that time he was able to persuade his father to allow him to study technical science instead of theology. He slept very little, only 4 hours a day and devoted all his free time to studying. By the age of 24, he already knew many books by heart and had already got a job in Budapest the following year.

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Tesla came to New York in 1884 and took a job there at Edison's Edison Machines Company. At that company, he quickly progressed and solved the most complicated problems in the company. Soon Tesla himself was credited with making most of the profits at Edison's firm, so Edison offered him $ 50,000 (today's $ 1.1 million) when Telsa completed his project. When that happened, Edison didn't fulfill his end of the bargain, and Tesla immediately quit. Edison was then forced to belittle Tesla's accomplishments, so he told people Tesla's AC generator was dangerous, and proved so by using it to kill innocent animals.

His stay in Belgrade:

Nikola Tesla's only stay in Belgrade was from June 1 to June 3, 1892. Then it honored by the Order of Saint Sava by Alexander Obrenovic.

His death:

Tesla died at the age of 87 at a New York hotel suite from a heart attack. The funeral ceremony was held on January 12 at St. John the Divine Church in Manhattan, New York. The discharges of Tesla's remains were attended by about 2000 people, including many notable figures and Nobel laureates.

Mandic Vladan

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During the winter of 1883, Edwin B. Ryan. The best description of this person, can be taken

from anecdote that still circulates today as a legend. During the Mexican Civil War he was

arrested and labeled as a spy, the rebels sentenced him to death, and when the time of

execution came, he calmly awaited, seemingly inevitable, fate. The astonished rebels looked

at Ryan in disbelief and decided not to kill him until they intimidated him. As they failed to do

so, they released him 2 weeks later.

This profile of a man and a fighter arrives in Belgrade, together with the American Red Cross

team, during the fall of 1914. His energy, struggle and perseverance have saved many

lives.Of course, though perhaps the heart of the operation, not all the credit could be given to

him, until the fall of 1916 his entire team worked hard, despite many difficulties, such as

Pegavac, from which he himself fell ill at one point. During his own battle against a serious

illness, he was honored in the hospital room, by France with the Knight of the Legion of

Honor, and posthumously by the Serbian Order of the White Eagle.

Milosavljevic Petar

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Milutin Milankovic was born in 1879 in the village of Dalj on the right bank of the Danube in Croatia today (at that time the village belonged to the Austro-Hungarian empire).

His father Milan was a wealthy man, a farmer, merchant and influential local politician. However, he died very young, when Milutin was only 8 years old.

Mother Elizabeth and her brother Vasilije (Milutinov uncle) had a very important role in the upbringing of boys since the early lost his father. Milutin his son named after his uncle for that reason, because he or she was a great support throughout their lives.

Milankovići had seven children of whom Milutin and sister Milena was the oldest (they were twins). His brothers died of tuberculosis, and taking care of other children in addition to mothers took Uncle Vasa and their grandmother.

Since he was extremely sensitive, Milutin was only 10 years old went to grammar school in Osijek (until then were taught by governesses and private tutors) who was a prep school for the study of engineering and agriculture. At first the other students managed better than him, but he did not need much time to reach their level and become the best student in class.

In 1896 he graduated from high school and at the recommendation of his mathematics professors enrolled in a six-year study of the building in Vienna and finished it with flying colors.

In the period of 1904 to 1909 Milutin made a big gap in his life:

-Made doctor post studies at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna

-Got job in Vienna's famous construction company, where he served most budgets

-Insert the mathematical modeling of the construction and a lot of time contributed to the advancement of projects for construction of reinforced concrete

-Projected many bridges (Kranj), hydropower (drinkable, Sebeš) and sewerage in Belgrade

-He is an associate professor at the University of Belgrade Department of applied mathematics

In 1910 he moved to the Kingdom of Serbia and became a citizen of this country.

From then until his death Milutin continued his scientific work and planning: -He was studying the climatology of our planet and of Mercury and Venus, patented a "concrete wall" in Hungary, he became a full professor at the university, he became  member of the Academy of Sciences, wrote many works in the fields of astronomy, climatology and geophysics, King Peter II was awarded him with  the Yugoslav crown, and in 1948 he became president of SASA.

In 1958 he died of a stroke at the age of eighty. He was buried in Belgrade, and his remains were transferred to his native village Dalj.

This scientist has worked in  the room at the University of Belgrade in Kapetan Miša's building with only a pencil, paper and logarithmic tables.

In his honor in 1965 Soviet scientists named a crater on the moon after him - "Milanković".

Today, his image can be seen on  2,000 Serbian dinars, and his name read on a metal plate of one of the major streets in New Belgrade, "Boulevard of Milutin Milanković".

Milosevic Vukasin

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Timothy John Byford was a british director, actor and screenwriter. He was born in 1941. in Solsbury, but a larger part of his career he spent in Serbia and Yugoslavia. He is most famous for his TV programmes for childeren, such as Neven, Poleterac, and Nedeljni zabavnik. He moved to Yugoslavia at the start of the seventies. Next to directing, he worked as a translator and thaught English aswell. For a long number of years he fought for the nature monument status of Banjica forest, through which  he enjoyed walking and in which he noted down 68 types of birds. With the initiative of his wife, Zorica Byford, along with other citizens, Banjica forest was renamed to Byfords forest in 2015. During the last ten years of his life, Byford was struggling with cancer. He died on the fifth of May, 2014. after 43 years of living in Serbia.

Mirkovic Bojana

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Milutin Radulovic was born in Kotor on 29.01.1933. as the oldest child from family of five children. When he was little he worked hard to help his parents on farm. He finished  Primary and Secondary school in Kotor and he graduaded in Electrical engineering in Zagreb. After his graduation he moved to Belgrade and got job in  Electrical distribution of  Belgrade. At that time in 60s Belgrade was small town. He worked very hard and in a few years he become a CEO of  Electrical constructions in Belgrade. He was close associate with former major of Belgrade, Branko Pesic. In that time Belgrade started to grow. He was the chief of constructing the electrical network in New Belgrade which is supllying the New Belgrade with electricity even today. In the beginig of 2000. he retired  a got a lot of  awards and acknowledgements. He left a great impression on colleagues and they will always remember him. Today he lives in Canada but he is folloing news about Serbia and Montenegro.

Nastic Nikola

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·        Milojko Vucelic: Senior manager for landing astronauts on the moon, Vucelic controlled the analysis of loading Apollo while in flight in space, analysis of the rendezvous around the moon and the direct landing on the moon.

·        Danilo Bojic: Chief Engineer and specialist for "Service propulsion system and Reaction control system" of the Apollo program.

·        Pavle Duic: Engineer for electrical energy for the Apollo spaceship during the flight to the moon.

·        Milisav Surbatovic: Engineer for system of docking and separation of spaceships during space flight.

·        Petar Galovic: Engineer for "Emergency Hatch System".

·        Slavoljub Vujic: Engineer for research on malfunction of electronic instruments for the Apollo and Saturn programs.

·        David Vuich: Responsible for coordination of the program between North American Rockwell and NASA and other companies involved in the building of Apollo.

MIlojko VUČELIĆ was in 1930. In a village called Garesnica, after he had finished University in Zagreb he migrated to Germany where he worked in a Mercedes fabric. He has always had a flair for aircrafts and aeronautics ,so he successfully finished a course for a aircraft captin in Vrsac . later he moved to America where he  worked for North American Aviation, which had a contract with NASA, so he became a NASAs engineer. His main task was to fix all the problms that could have occurred during the Apollos mission, so he quickly got a nickname <problem manager>. When Jake Swigert as a crew member of Apollo 13 contacted the Earth saying <Huston we have had a problem> Milojko was the person who took the call a responded in no time. Rescuing the crew lasted for whole four days, where Milojkos job was to insecure oxygen and electricity for crews comeback .  in  1970. Present of US Richard Nikson awarded Milojko with <MEDAL of freedom>. He died on 7. December 2012.

Popovic Isidora

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Emmerich Lindenmayer (1806 - 1884) was born in the Austrian kingdom and comes from a family of surgeons and specialists for thermal waters and spas. He studied medicine while helping his father research medical effects of thermal waters in spas. He had been promoted to a regular doctor in 1832 and after three years of practice he came to Serbia. The first position he was placed in was a zonal doctor of the Podrinjsko-Sava military command. Two years later he got a job as doctor in a military hospital in Belgrade. He was greatly displeased with his salary and planned to leave Serbia and return to the Austrian kingdom. Therefore, he sent a letter to the duke Milos, and was transferred to Kragujevac as a guard doctor. In 1839 he earned a seat among the staff of doctors by successfully arranging the Military Sanitation and the military hospitals. Six years later he became a chief of Sanitary and he kept that position until his pension. As a chief of Sanitary he fought for building a new hospital in every zone in Serbia, as well as improvement and development of spas.

He achieved a great success at fighting against syphilis which at the time was spreading at significant rate throughout Serbia. Furthermore, he formed a doctor committee with the principled aim to find the cause of the disease. He also raised a hospital which specialised in curing syphilis. For a great amount of time he was the only qualified doctor so he had to do most of the work all by himself. In 1848 and 1849 he successfully battled against two epidemics of cholera in Serbia.

With his efforts, he managed to restore the orphanage fund in Belgrade, and then at the cities throughout the country. With the support of duke Aleksandar Karadjordjevic, he worked hard to raise and augment Serbian spas. Thanks to him in 1851 the first rulebook was established regarding all Serbian spas and thermal waters. Duties of spa doctors, staff and even visitors were determined. He ordered that every zone must send one spa doctor in the 3 month lasting spa season to explain the visitors what the proper treatment looks like and what they should do. He also organised quarantine service at the borders of Serbia and introduced a law, chemical analysis are required at the times of poisoning.

In 1859 he was suddenly retired and that change really hurt him. He managed to get “the right to work at anyone’s service” until 1865 when he retired willingly. Since he was treated unfairly by being let go from the Sanitary, duke Mihailo honored him with a high order.

During the bombing of Belgrade, he was summoned to the Ministry of Defense, where he was given the power to organise a sanitary in Belgrade in case he finds it necessary. Then, for the last time, he showed his worth having submitted to the Ministry of Defense in less than an hour a plan for the most urgent preparations in Sanitary in the case of an armed conflict in Belgrade.

Dr. Lindenmayer died in Belgrade on October 12, 1884.

Radenkovic Aleksandar

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Mehmed Meša Selimović was born in Tuzla on April 26, 1910. He was a Yugoslav writer who created in the second half of the 20th century and is listed among the 100 most prominent Serbs. He completed elementary and high school in Tuzla, after which he enrolled in Yugoslav literature at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. He graduated in 1934, and for the next 6 years worked as a professor at the Civic School and Gymnasium in Tuzla. At the beginning of the war, he was arrested for co-operation with the National Liberation Movement in Tuzla. Subsequently, after moving to free territory, he became a member of the Communist Party and later a political commissioner of the Tuzla partisan detachment. From 1944 to 1947 he lived in Belgrade, where he practiced in politics and culture, and then moved to Sarajevo, where he held various positions as professor of high school, assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, director of the National Theater and editor of the magazine. After his retirement, he moved to Belgrade in January 1973. years. Mesa was a full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He married twice and left behind two daughters for a second marriage. During his lifetime he was elected President of the Federation of Writers of Yugoslavia and then Doctor of Sarajevo University. During his lifetime, he wrote mostly short stories and novels, and his most significant works are a collection of short stories as his first book, The First Company, followed by a collection of short stories, A Stranger Land, a novel Silence. Who is his most significant book and undoubtedly one of the best novels of Yugoslav literature ever is the well-known novel Dervish and Death. He is the recipient of many awards and has received numerous awards such as the Nin Prize, the Goran Prize, and the Njegoš Prize. There were various disputes over Selimovic's nationality, but his personal preference was Serbity. He comes from a Muslim family, which can be seen by his name. He once said that being a Serb is glorious but expensive. He achieved his goal when his novel "Dervish and Death" was published in Belgrade in the "Serbian Literature in 100 Books" edition. In his testamentary letter to the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Mesa writes: “I come from a Muslim family, I am a Serb by nationality. I belong to Serbian literature, while I consider literary creativity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to which I also belong, only a native literary center, not a specific literature of Serbo-Croatian literary language. I equally respect my background and my commitment, because I am attached to everything that has determined my personality and my work. Any attempt to separate this, for whatever purpose, would be considered an abuse of my fundamental right guaranteed by the Constitution. Therefore, I belong to the nation and literature of Vuk, Matavul, Stevan Sremac, Borisav Stankovic, Petar Kocic, Ivo Andric, and I have no need to prove my deepest kinship with them. "

Ristanovic Maja

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There are people who, although born outside of it's borders, feel great love and a sense of belonging to Serbia. They contributed a lot to it's development and autochthon citizens of Serbia consider them as their rightful fellow citizens and they greatly admire their work. Among those people is a famous writer Branko Ćopić.

Branko Ćopić was born on 1 January 1915 in Hašani, a small village in todays Bosnia and Herzegovina. He lost his father at a very early age, so he grew up with his mother, uncle, grandfather, brother and sister. As a child he showed great passion for reading. After finishing elementary school in Hašani and gymnasium in Bihać, he attended teacher's colleges in Banja Luka, Sarajevo and Karlovac. After that, he moved to Belgrade, where he lived for the rest of his life. He studied at the University of Belgrade and graduated from Faculty of Philosophy in 1940. At this time he proved himself as a gifted writer.

Short time after the attack of Germany on Yugoslavia in April 1941, Ćopić returned to Bosanska Krajina where he joined Partisans. He stayed in their ranks until the end of World War II. Many events from the war served as an inspiration for his literary work. After the war he started writing professionally. He mostly wrote for children, but poems, novels and novellas are also part of his literary opus. His work has been translated in many foreign languages. He ended his life tragically by juming off the Branko's bridge in Belgrade on 26 March 1984.

Cultural contribution of Branko Ćopić to Serbia is great. There is not a single child who did not grow up with Ćopić's books, such as Hedgehog's house, Adventures of Toscho the Cat, Eagles fly early... Many of them are part of a school reading and are being analyzed in detail during school classes. His stories intrigued many film directors. There are many film adaptation of his books, starring many A-list yugoslav actors. Most of them received postive reviews. Another indicator that Ćopić is not forgotten is the fact that there is a manifestation in Hašani called "Through childhood trails of Ćopić". It is organized every year on 12 October, the day of Ćopić's slava, Miholjdan. Students, who attend schools which carry Ćopić's name, gather in front of school in Hašani where awards are being awarded to winners of a literary competition. Another interesting fact is that a symposium about Ćopić's work is being held every year. Many literature experts attend these events.

With his work, Branko Ćopić has included himself in the ranks of most influental people who lived on Serbia's territory. Through his books he teaches us the virtues and benevolence of human nature and thanks to that he will always be relevant.

Sekulic Pavle

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Saint Clement of Ohrid (around 835 - 916), the brother of Saint Naum and disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius is one of the Christian apostles of the Southern Balkans. The exact location of his birth is unknown, but most agree it was in Macedonia, then territory of Bulgaria. He became a priest in Rome, then a prisoner in Great Moravia, after which he passed through Belgrade. With permission from the Bulgarian Archon Boris I, by 886 he founded what is known as “the first Slavic university” in Ohrid, through which 3500 disciples have passed. He has contributed to Orthodox music, specifically to chanting and its variety. Refined Cyrillic and translated literature to Church Slavic, it is believed he may have even authored some writings. In 893, he became an archbishop, then founded a monastery dedicated to Saint Panteleimon, where he would later be buried and swiftly canonized. His slava, according to the Serbian Orthodox Church, is on the 9th of August.

I chose him because I’ve noticed the tendency to condense his impact and legacy to one sentence, shared with his brother, no less. To many, both are known only as Cyril and Methodius’ disciples. Although we do not know much about them, their impact is still felt today.

Stojakovic Ana

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Ivo Andrić was a Serbian and Yugoslav writer and diplomat of the

Kingdom of Yugoslavia.He was born in 1892. in Dolac in Bosnia and

Herzegovina. Following the death of his father he moves with his

mother to Višegrad, where he finishes primary school. In 1903. he

enrolls in the gymnasium in Sarajevo and starts writing poetry. He was

a member of the “Young Bosnia” movement and a passionate fighter

for the liberation of the South Slavics from the Austro-Hungarian

monarchy. In 1919. he became a clerk at the Ministry of Religion in

Belgrade. In 1920. he was appointed clerk in the Vatican mission and

later worked as a diplomat in consulates in Bucharest, Trieste and Graz.

He had a very successful diplomatic career, at the peak of which he was

appointed Minister Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary Member of the

Kingdom of Yugoslavia in Berlin. During World War II, he pleaded and

fought with the German authorities for the fate of many Polish

scientists and artists who were sent to concentration camps. In 1946.

he became president of the Union of Writers of Yugoslavia. In 1961, he

was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, for "the epic power with

which he shaped themes and portrayed the destinies of people

throughout the history of his country." He donated the million dollar

prize he received along with the Nobel Prize for the development of

librarianship in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was a member of the board

of directors of the Serbian Literary Cooperative from 1936. to 1939. and

from 1945. until his death in 1975.

Tarabanovic Rastko

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Diana Budisavaljević(1891-1978) was a Austrian humanitarian

and philanthropist. She was born in Innsbruck in Austria-

Hungary, where she grew up and received education. She was

married to dr. Julij Budisavljevic, whom she met in Insbruck and

with whom she moves to Zagreb in 1917. Having opportunity to

percieve happenings in state of NDH, she founds out about

concentration camps formed in its territory, and in October of

1941 starts her mission on rescuing and improving life

conditions of women and children imprisoned in the camps. She

contributed in many different ways: she sent material help in

form of elementary supplies, such as food and clothing, rescued

children from camps with help of her acquaintances’

connections, sent various reports and appeals to Red Cross

about the crimes commited againts women and children in

those camps, and also by joining and collaborating with various

humanitarian organisations. Throughout entire process of

rescuing children she evidented and identified them, with hope

of bringing them back to their famillies. With her selfless efforts

she managed to rescue almost 15000 children out of camps,

where 12000 survived the war, but 3000 passed away due to

terrible camp condititions they were subjected to and starvation.

Diana&#39;s diares were taken away bay OZNA, the Yugoslav

secret service agency, so saved children never knew their true

identity and biological famillies. There were, however,

organisations that actively worked on reuniting families, such as

Arena from Zagreb. Diana continiued living in Zabreb, forgotten

by official government, media and people, due to Yugoslav

regime&#39;s work on concealing evidences about crimes commited

in concentration camps. In 1972. she returns to Innsbruck, and

dies in 1978. However, after collapse of communism, she gets

posthumous medals for extraordinary contriutions to Serbian

people, and streets in Belgrade, Kozarska Dubica and Gradiška

carry her name. A film about her life work is in process of

production.

Radovanovic Vladimir

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Rudolphe Archibald Reiss (1875-1929) was a swiss publicist, chemistry professor and most importantly a forensicist. During World War 1 he was investigating the crimes done on the Serbian population. He was born on the 8th of july in the year 1875, Archibald was the eighth of ten children, son of Ferdinand Reiss, landowner and Pauline Sabine Anna Gabriele Seutter von Loetzen in a town called Hencenberg in southern Germany by Baden. He finished elementary and highschool in Germany, a he finished college in Switzerland as a result of his poor health. He was called by the Serbian government in 1914. to investigate the misdeeds done on the civilian population by the sides of the Austrian,German and Bulgarian army. He crossed Albania with the Serbian army, helped liberate the Salonic front and was part of the liberation force that freed Belgrade. After the war he modernized the Serbian police force. He published many books and reports which were then published in the Swiss press. The were used to counteract the propaganda spreed by the Austria and Germany. Some of his most famous works were : “La photographie judiciaire”, ”Manuel du portrait parlé”, “Thefts and Murders” and “Manuel de Police scientifique”. He was a honorary citizen of Krupnja, he was the first class captain and was honored many times. He passed away on the 8th of august 1929. and according to his will  his heart  was buried at Kajmakcalan with the other soldiers that that died during the liberation of the Salonic front.

Zivkovic Aleksa

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Josif Pancic was a Serbian doctor, botanist and the first president of Serbian Royal Academy. He discovered a new species of conifers named after him – Panciceva omorika. He is regarded as a father of Serbian botany.

Pancic was born in the village of Ugrini near Bribir in Vinodol (todays Croatia) in a poor Catholic family. He was fourth child of Paul and Margarita.

His parents were poor , so his uncle brought him to Gospic to study. He finished elementary school in Gospic, and High school in Rijeka. He moved from Rijeka to Zagreb in 1830 ,  where he continued his education at the “Regia Academica Scientarium”. He wanted to focus his education on the natural sciences, so he graduated Medical University in Pest and became a doctor of medicine in 1842. His studying was 10 years long , because he had to do other jobs besides his studies in order to survive.

He did not want to work in civil service , so he became a private doctor , however, that job didn’t last long because he did not have enough patients. He spent the next 2 years in Banat where he collected many interesting plants. After 2 years he returned to Gospic to visit his brother and uncle , and he collected a lot of plants from the Coastal flora there.

From Gospic , he went to Vienna to complete his herbarium which he had collected over the years. At the same time , he listened to lectures by the famous botanist Endler and studied plants at the Vienna Museum of Natural History. He was in Vienna for a year and there he met Vuk Karadzic , who wanted to sent him to Serbia for a civil service and , due to lack of money , he immediately went to Serbia to look for a job in Uzice.

He came to Serbia in May 1846, but since Vuk Karadzic had many enemies there, Pancic couldn’t find a work place anywhere, so he visited Uzice and studied nature and the wildlife there. Just when he thought of returning back due to lack of money , he received a call from Avram Petronijevic , foreign minister , who wanted him to work as a doctor for the treatment of typhoid fever at a glass factory in Jagodina , because many workers there were infected. He accepted it and successfully completed the job within a month.

The residents of Jagodina loved Pancic as a good doctor and man , and when he was offered a new job in Negotin, residents of Jagodina asked him to stay , so he became a doctor of Jagodina district. He often visited Cuprija , where he met Ljudmila , who was the daughter of the baron , whom he married in Cuprija in 1849.

In 1850 he was accepted to the Society of Serbian Ceremonies, and in 1853 he became a professor of Natural sciences in Lyceum , as the best expert in the flora of Serbia.

When , in 1855 , he heard that there was a special species of conifer in Western Serbia , ten years later he received 2 of its branches , and after another 10 years, in 1877, he discovered , till then unknown conifer  – plant which was named after him – Panciceva omorika. During his lifetime he discovered 102 and described over 2500 plant species.

He died in 1888 , and finished the preference for Botanical Garden a few days before his death.

The highest top on Kopaonik , the Pancic’s top , was also named after Josif Pancic , and is a location where Mausoleum where Pancic was buried in 1951 is.

Zivkovic Emilija

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He was born in Poland (Sieradz) on 27.1.1912. and died in Belgrade on May 5, 1993. He was a doctor, a JNA medical colonel and a professor at the MMA. Although he was arrested and sent to camp during his studies in Italy in 1939, after а capitulation оf Italy (7.9.1943) he completed his studies in Modena. After the end of the World War II, he settled in Yugoslavia, where he began specializing in epidemiology at the MMA Hygiene Institute. He was elected Assistant Professor of the MMA in 1967 and Professor in 1972. He was primarily concerned with the prevention and control of intestinal infectious diseases. He was among the first in the world to believe that a successful vaccine should be one that would mimic the natural mode of infection, made from live, attenuated pathogenic agents. He applied similar principles to the vaccine against typhoid fever and cholera. They are also known today as Mel's vaccines. Dr. Mel also had the status of a World Health Organization expert. He has been awarded the Military Star with a Big Star, the National Army with a Gold Star, the Military Merit with a Gold Sword and many others.
Dragana Grahovac

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Флора Сандес

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Флора Сандес