Stefan_Marković_(politician)

Stefan Marković (politician)

Stefan Marković (politician)

Serbian politician


Stefan Marković (Serbian Cyrillic: Стефан Марковић, 26 July 1804 – 29 November 1864) was a Serbian politician.[1]

A portrait of Marković, around 1860.

Biography

Marković was born in Zemun and finished elementary school in the town in 1815, and high school in Sremski Karlovci in 1821.[2] He studied at a university in Austria, and in 1834 he moved to Serbia.[2]

In 1834 he came to live in Kragujevac, then the capital of Serbia. He was a member of the government and the secretary of the Prime Minister's Office from 1835; director of the Prince's Office from 28 September 1837; principal secretary of the Privy Council from 1839; member of the council from 1842 to 1857; minister of justice and minister of education from 21 December 1854 to 29 May 1856; acting minister for foreign affairs from 29 May to 16 September 1856; minister of justice and education from 16 September 1856 to 19 June 1857; and again minister for foreign affairs from 19 June 1857 to 31 March 1858.[2]

Marković was nominated the first member of the Društvo srbske slovesnosti (Society Of Serbian Letters: forerunner of the Serbian Royal Academy) on 27 May 1842; he also held the post of the president of the Society (DSS) from 27 December 1854 until 19 June 1857.[1][3]

With the return to power of Prince Miloš Obrenović, Marković, knowing that his political career was over, left the country in 1858 never to return.[1]

Stefan Marković died in Vienna in 1864.


References

  1. Љубомир Никић; Гордана Жујовић; Гордана Радојчић-Костић. Грађа за биографски речник чланова ДСС, СУД и СКА. Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti. pp. 180–. GGKEY:981NS64P25L.
  2. Biography, Serbian Academy of Sciencies and Arts

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