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

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

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

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

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

  
Duka Milica

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

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

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. 

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

 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

 

                                    
 
 

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

 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

·        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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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