Lazar Dokić
Doctor Lazar Dokić | |
|---|---|
Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Serbia | |
| In office 1 April 1893 – 5 December 1893 | |
| Monarch | Alexander I |
| Preceded by | Jovan Avakumović |
| Succeeded by | Sava Grujić |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 27 September 1845 Belgrade, Serbia |
| Died | 13 December 1893 (aged 48) Opatija, Austria-Hungary |
| Nationality | Serb |
| Political party | People's Radical Party |
Lazar Dokić (
Biography
Dokić finished elementary school and gymnasium in Belgrade and studied medicine in Vienna and Prague, back in Serbia he worked as a county doctor in
On 1 April 1893, the sixteen-year-old prince, while dining with members of the Regency, supported by the army and government members, but without the support of the constitution and the law, declared himself an adult and proclaimed himself the new Serbian king.[4] The outcome of the coup d’état was the collapse of the Regency and of the cabinet.[5] The young ruler appointed Lazar Dokić as President.[6]
With the exception of the Ministry of the Military, the Cabinet of Lazar Dokić was purely Radical.[7] Only two months later, Dokić got sick, and the king entered into conflict with the ministers which resulted with the departure of the Minister of the Military, Dragutin Franasović, replaced by Sava Grujić.[8]
Dokić resigned on 5 December 1893. He died in Opatija on 13 December 1893.
He was a member of the Serbian Learned Society, an independent institution dedicated to the development of critical thinking, from 25 January 1870, and an honorary member of the Serbian Royal Academy from 15 November 1892.
See also
- List of prime ministers of Serbia
- Sava Petrović
- Vladan Đorđević
References
- ^ "Dokic Lazar". www.sanu.ac.rs. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
- ^ Heads of State and Government, John V da Graça, Springer, 2000
- ISBN 978-8-67179-094-9.
- ^ Slobodan Jovanović, Vlada Milana Obrenovića, vol. I (Belgrade, 1934)
- ^ Raša Milošević, Državni udar odozgo i Prvi april 1893; svrgnuće krujeg kraljevskog namesništva (Belgrade, 1936)
- ^ Živan Živanović, Politička istorija Srbije u drugoj polovini devetnaestog veka. Book. 3, Kraljevsko namesništvo po abdikaciji kralja Milana i prva polovina vladavine kralja Aleksandra I: 1889-1897, Geca Kon, Belgrade, 1924, p. 193.
- ^ Ustavni razvitak Srbije u XIX veku, ed. Miroslav Djordjević (Leskovac,1970).
- ^ Suzana Rajić, Aleksandar Obrenović, vladar na prelazu vekova, sukobljeni svetovi, Beograd 2014
