Jovan Ilić
Jovan Ilić | |
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Minister of Justice Principality of Serbia | |
In office 1869–1871 | |
Monarch | Milan Obrenović |
Preceded by | Đorđe Cenić |
Succeeded by | Stojan Veljković |
Personal details | |
Born | Resnik, Principality of Serbia | 15 August 1824
Died | March 12, 1901 Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia | (aged 76)
Children | Vojislav Ilić, Dragutin Ilić |
Alma mater | Licej Kneževine Srbije |
Occupation | politician, poet, writer |
Jovan "Jova" Ilić (Belgrade, 15 August 1824 – Belgrade, 12 March 1901) was a Serbian poet and politician.
Biography
Ilić's father was a merchant who arrived in Belgrade from Niš and married Stana, a woman from Podgorica. His business thrived and after his death, his fortune was large enough to pay for Jovan's education. Ilić and his wife Smiljana had seven children, four boys, and three girls, but only one girl lived to adulthood, the other two girls died as toddlers. The four boys followed in their father's footsteps, taking up literature as their life's work. Vojislav Ilić was later recognized as the preeminent poet of his day; Milutin, Dragutin and Žarko wrote books and were well known in their own right.
Jovan Ilić belonged to the first generation of Serbian university students (Petar Protić-Skopljanin,
With Ranko Alimpić, Jevrem Grujić, and others he formed a revolutionary group in 1858, the "Liberal Club", which advocated for independence.[1] They played an important role in the St. Andrew's Day Assembly in 1858 when the call for a parliamentary check on monarchic power for the first time gained support. Through their collective effort, the ideas of Slavic brotherhood were intertwined with the doctrines of liberalism. The generation of liberals in Serbia, which emerged in the late-1840s and 1850s, believed that individual freedom and the 'progress of the nation' could be secured through the institution of parliamentary representation.
His poetry was first influenced by classical poetry and later by the national epic poetry of the time. Jovan Ilić was a cabinet minister and a member of the Privy Council (Državni Savet).
He died in Belgrade on 12 March 1901.
Works
- Pesme, Belgrade, 1854
- Pesme (II), Novi Sad, 1858
- Pastiri, Belgrade, 1868
- Tapija, Belgrade, 1879
- Dahire, Belgrade, 1891
- Pesme (III), Belgrade, 1894
- Kratka istorija Grka i Turaka za mladež, Belgrade, 1853
- Pogled na sadašnje stanje naše, Belgrade, 1859
- Srpska Pismenica, Novi Sad, 1860
- Pogled na sadašnje stanje naše, Belgrade, 1859
- Srpska Pismenica, Novi Sad 1860
See also
References
- JSTOR 177875.
- Translated and adapted from Jovan Skerlić's Istorija nove srpske književnosti (Belgrade, 1914, 1921) pages 296-298.
- Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts: http://www.sanu.ac.rs/English/Clanstvo/IstClan.aspx?arg=197,