Vid Milanović – teacher in the service of the fatherland

International Academic Conference 150 years since the Herzegovina Uprising: impact on regional security and European geopolitics, June 10-11, 2025, Belgrade [pp. 144-155]

 

AUTOR(I) / AUTHOR(S): Boško M. Branković  

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.46793/Herzegovina.144B

SAŽETAK /ABSTRACT:

Vid Milanović was born in 1848 in Suvaja near Bosanski Petrovac. He graduated from the Theological Seminary in Banja Luka in 1871. Until the outbreak of the Serbian uprising in Bosnia in 1875, he worked as a teacher in Kostajnica and Bosanski Petrovac. He joined the insurgents in Crni Potoci after the rebellion broke out. Golub Babić soon appointed him as the Chief Commander. He was wounded on two occasions during the uprising. At the Assembly in Tiškovac in 1877, he was appointed a member of the Provisional People’s Bosnian Government. Prince Milan Obrenović awarded him the Takovo Cross of the Third Degree and the Silver Medal for Courage for his services during the uprising of 1875-1878. After the Austro-Hungarian occupation of the provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1879, he entered the civil service. Due to poor health, he retired in 1899. After the establishment of the “Prosvjeta” Society in Sarajevo in 1902, he was appointed the first trustee of the Society in Bosanski Petrovac. As a trustee, he actively worked on strengthening the Society and its affirmation. Due to his deteriorating health, he resigned from the position of trustee in the autumn of 1903 and went for treatment in Kiseljak near Visoko, where he died on April 1, 1905.

KLJUČNE REČI / KEYWORDS: 

Vid Milanović, education, Serbian uprising in Bosnia 1875-1878, occupation, Serbian Educational and Cultural Society Prosvjeta

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Print Media

  • Zastava, br. 100, 26. avgust/7. septembar 1873. [Zastava, No. 100, 26 August / 7 September 1873]
  • Zastava, br. 159, 12./24. oktobar 1877. [Zastava, No. 159, 12/24 October 1877]
  • Srpske novine, br.158, 17. jul 1873. [Srpske novine, No. 158, 17 July 1873]
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