Aleksandar Deroko

Aleksandar Deroko
Born	(1894-09-04)4 September 1894 Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia
Died	30 November 1988(1988-11-30) (aged 94) Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Serbian
Occupation	Architect

Aleksandar Deroko (

His great-grandfather was a Venetian named Marco de Rocco, who moved to Dubrovnik (in the Kingdom of Dalmatia) and married a local woman.^{[citation needed]} Aleksandar's grandfather, Jovan, came to Belgrade to be an art teacher. On his maternal side, his great-uncle was Jovan Đorđević (1826–1900), the founder of the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad. Deroko was also related to the famous Serbian writer Stevan Sremac (1855–1906).^{[citation needed]}

During his childhood years, his family lived in his great-uncles' house at Knez Mihailova Street, in the center of Belgrade. He was not a very good student in elementary and secondary school, in fact he barely managed to graduate. As he said in his biography, he preferred boating on the river Sava to studying.^[1] Before World War I, he enrolled at the Technical Faculty of the University of Belgrade.

World War I

In the beginning of the war he volunteered in the artillery, but was transferred to

Selected works

• 
  Cathedral of Saint Sava

  , Belgrade
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  House of coronel Elezović in Njegoševa street, Belgrade
• 
  Residence in the

  Žiča monastery
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  Gazimestan monument
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  Church of the Holy Transfiguration, Novo Sarajevo
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  Chapel of Vidovdan Heroes, Sarajevo

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