Pavle Bošković (general)

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Pavle Bošković (

general and the 12th Dean of the Academic Board of the Military Academy
and its chief (1900-1901).

Biography

Pavle Bošković was born on 11 August 1849 in

Ministry of Defense.[1]

Quartermaster's Office

During both Serbian-Turkish wars, he became the assistant chief intendant.[1] From 1879 he was an assistant chief of the economic department of the Ministry of Defense.[1] He distinguished himself by his work on the reorganization of the army, so in cooperation with several other officers, the Law on the Military Academy was written in 1879, and a new Organization of the Army was published in 1883.[3] From 1881 to 1882 he was the first commander of a battery, and then of a division, and in the middle of 1882 he was appointed a member of the artillery committee.[3] He was promoted in 1882 to rank major. In 1883, he became the head of the uniform department of the Ministry of Defense.[1] During Serbo-Bulgarian War he was appointed head of the quartermaster's department at the Supreme[3] After the end of the war, he became the acting commander of the Danube Artillery Regiment in 1886.[3] He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1887.[2] He returned to the Central Military Administration in 1889, where he was first the head of the engineering and technical department.[3] He was appointed head of the economic department in 1891 at the Ministry of Defense.[3] He was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1893.[1] He also served as a professor at the Military Academy on several occasions, from 1879 until 1881, from 1884 to 1887, from 1888 to 1889 and as its professor and dean from 1900 to 1901.[3] He was appointed in 1897 as the headmaster of the Military Administrative School.[3] He retired for the first time in 1898, but was reactivated in the summer of 1900.[3]

Supporter of
Aleksandar Obrenović

Most officers opposed the upcoming marriage of king

general.[3] From 1900 to 1901 he served as the dean of the Military Academy.[3] He retired for the second time in August 1901.[3] After the May Coup he was one of the prominent counter-conspirators.[6] He was a member of the "Society for the legal resolution of conspiracy issues", which was founded in October 1905.[6] He had two sons, who died in 1914 and 1915.[3] His daughter married to general Ljubomir Marić.[3]

Pavle Bošković died on 23 April 1923 in Belgrade.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "NA", Narodna enciklopedija srpsko-hrvatsko-slovenačka, Beograd, knjiga 1, 269
  2. ^ a b c d M. Milicevic, Lj. Popović, 2003, p. 66
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o M. Milicevic, Lj. Popović, 2003, p. 68
  4. ^ D. Vasić Nine Hundred and Third, 2003, p. 50
  5. ^ a b D. Vasić Nine Hundred and Third, 2003, p. 51
  6. ^ a b D. Vasić Nine Hundred and Third, 2003, p. 129
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