Andrej Mitrović
(PhD)
- modern history
- historiography
- social history
- economic history
- history of political thought
- cultural history
- Times Intolerant (1974)
- Serbia's Great War (2005)
Andrej Mitrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Андреј Митровић; 17 April 1937 – 25 August 2013) was a Serbian historian, professor and author. A specialist of the contemporary history of Serbia and Yugoslavia, he was head of the Contemporary History Department at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. Mitrović wrote extensively about the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference, interwar Europe as well as articles on economic, social, cultural history and historiography.
One of the leading Yugoslav and Serbian historians of the 20th century, Mitrović often challenged his own country's historical narratives and was openly critical of Serbian nationalism in the late 1980s and early 1990. He was an honorary member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts, a member of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the recipient of several prestigious awards.[1]
Early life and education
Andrej Mitrović was born in Kragujevac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia on 17 April 1937, he completed elementary and secondary school in Kragujevac. Mitrović graduated in history from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, earning his master's degree in 1964 with the thesis "April negotiations on the Adriatic question at the 1919 peace conference" and his doctorate in 1967 with the thesis "Delegation of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes at the 1919-1920 Peace Conference".[2]
Academic career
Mitrović became faculty assistant in 1961, assistant professor in 1967, associate professor in 1974; that year he published Times Intolerant: A Political History of the Great Powers, 1919-1939 his award-winning book about the interwar growing ideological divisions and the intolerance that resulted from it.[3]
In 1980 he accepted a position at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, where he taught contemporary European history, introduction to historical studies and numerous specialised courses; in 1987 he became the head of the department of Modern History.[2] In 1988 he became a corresponding fellow of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, spending research years in Italy and West Germany.[4] Mitrović published the first comprehensive theory of historical studies in Serbian historiography after assimilating the concept of total history developed by the Bielefeld School, Mitrović’s version included politics, economy, society and culture bringing new perspectives in historical writing, a concept which his students then started applying in their own research.[5]
Mitrović studied the place of Yugoslavia in European politics between the two world wars and is the author of books and articles about Serbia’s involvement in the First World War, as well as on the economic, social, and cultural, history of the Balkans within the European framework. According to Cambridge University Press Mitrović's Serbia's Great War, 1914–1918 (2005), his only volume to be republished in English, is widely regarded as a major contribution to the topic of Serbia and its role in WWI and is being studied in western scholarship.[3] The first edition was greeted in scholarly circles as a "scrupulously written magnum opus".[6]
Activism
Starting in the late 1980s Mitrović was outspoken about the abuse of history and the revision of facts for political purposes, using his scholarship as a platform for critique and activism; In the 1990s he was a vocal critic of the regime of Slobodan Milošević, opposing growing nationalism and advocating for a modern European oriented Serbia. Some of his speeches were published by the Belgrade Circle in a book entitled Druga Srbja (Other Serbia).[a] Together with his wife, Ljubinka Trgovčević, he utilised his academic background to engage in public discourse, writing essays, giving lectures, and participating in every protests against the war.[8]
In 1991 they published an historian's proclamation against the shelling of Dubrovnik, that same year he published a book in which he warned against the effects of what he called parahistory, a type of historical revisionism featuring the distortion of selected sources to indict one side or another.[9] In April 1999 with a number of prominent Serbian intellectual, he was a signatory of “A plea for peace from Belgrade”.[10] According to German Historian Alexander Korb, as a consequence of his positions that stood out from most Serbian professional and academic circles, Mitrović was never promoted to full member of the Serbian Academy.[11]
Awards
- 1975 City of Belgrade October Award[3]
- 2001 Herder Prize by the University of Vienna and the Alfred Toepfer Foundation of Hamburg[3]
- 2004 Konstantin Jireček Award by Germany's Southeast European Association[3]
Personal life
Andrej Mitrović was married to fellow historian Ljubinka Trgovčević. He died on 25 August 2013 in Belgrade.[2]
Selected works
During his lifetime Mitrović published 25 books and approximately 400 articles.[12]
Books
- Yugoslavia at the Peace Conference in Paris (1969, Zavod za izdavanje udžbenika)[13]
- Time of the Intolerant - Political History of the Great States 1919-1939 (Belgrade 1974)
- Demarcation of Yugoslavia, politics at the Peace Conference in Paris (Novi Sad 1975)
- Historical in the Magic Mountain (1977)
- Entering the Balkans, Serbia in the Plans of Austria-Hungary and Germany 1908-1918. (1981)[14]
- Engaged and Beautiful (1983)
- Arguments with Clio (1991)
- The Toplica Uprising (1993)[15]
- About God's State and Evil Salvation (2007)
- Culture and History (2008)
- About God's State and Evil Salvation (2007)
- Serbia's Great War 1914–1918 (2007, Purdue University Press)[16]
Notes
- ^ Other Serbia became during the 1990s, a term to designate intellectuals who were anti-war and opposed to Serbian nationalism.[7]
References
- ^ "Umro Andrej Mitrović". Vijesti. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
- ^ a b c "Хроника". sanu.ac.rs. 22 February 2014. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014.
- ^ a b c d e Lampe, JR. "IN MEMORIAM Andrej Mitrovic, 1937–2013" (PDF). cambridge.org. Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Štavljanin, Dragan (26 August 2013). "In memoriam: Andrej Mitrović, kritičar vremena netrpeljivih". Radio Slobodna Evropa (in Serbian).
- ^ Burke, P. (2001). New Perspectives on Historical Writing. Polity Press. ISBN 978-0-7456-2428-0.
- ^ Miloradović, Goran (1 January 2014). "Andrej Mitrović. Serbia's Great War, 1914-1918. Introduction by Professor Mark Cornwall, Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, London 2007". Transcultural Studies. 10 (2). doi:10.1163/23751606-01002008. ISSN 1930-6253.
- ^ "The Other Serbia". University of Southern Maine. 3 November 2004. Archived from the original on 19 February 2005. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- ^ Kulačin, Nenad; Sporazum za nesporazum; Lukač, Jasmina; JUL, Moja Srbija kao; Ime autora poznato redakciji; Singapura, Srbija do; Vidojković, Marko (30 August 2013). "Netrpeljiv prema netrpeljivima". Dnevni list Danas (in Serbian).
- ^ Sindbæk, Tea (28 January 2015). "Representations of Yugoslavia's difficult past – from 1945 to 2002". Aarhus University Press.
- ^ "A plea for peace from Belgrade". the Guardian. 23 April 1999.
- ^ "Nachruf auf Professor Dr. Andrej Mitrović (1937-2013)". Humanities and Social Sciences Online. 16 January 2014. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014.
- ^ "Andrej Mitrović (1937–2013)". Nedeljnik Vreme (in Serbian). 29 August 2013.
- ^ Mitrović, Andrej (1969). Jugoslavija na Konferenciji mira 1919-1920 (in Serbian). Beograd: Zavod za izdavanje udžbenika.
- ^ Mitrović, Andrej (1981). Prodor na Balkan: Srbija u planovima Austro-Ugarske i Nemačke 1908–1918 (in Serbian). Beograd: Nolit.
- ^ Митровић, Андреј (1987). Устаничке борбе у Србији 1916–1918 (in Serbian). Београд: Српска књижевна задруга. ISBN 9788637900610.
- ^ Mitrović, Andrej (2007). Serbia's Great War 1914–1918. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press. ISBN 978-1-55753-476-7.
External links
- Obituary on the website of SANU
- Netrpeljiv prema netrpeljivima [Bigoted to bigoted] – Obituary published in Danas magazine, author: Dubravka Stojanović
- Interview with Andrej Mitrović from 1999
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- 1964: Oto Bihalji-Merin
- Jan Kott
- Stanisław Lorentz
- Lucijan Marija Škerjanc
- 1965: Tudor Arghezi
- Manolis Hatzidakis
- Emanuel Hruška
- Zoltán Kodály
- László Németh
- Hugo Rokyta
- Hristo Vakarelski
- 1966: Ján Cikker
- Dezső Dercsényi
- Zlatko Gorjan
- Aleksander Kobzdej
- Anton Kriesis
- Niko Kuret
- Dimiter Statkov
- 1967: Iván Fenyő
- Vladimír Kompánek
- Witold Lutosławski
- Spyridon Marinatos
- Alexandru A. Philippide
- Mihai Pop
- Svetozar Radojčić
- 1968: Constantin Daicoviciu
- Roman Ingarden
- Miroslav Krleža
- Ludvík Kunz
- Anastasios Orlandos
- Lajos Vayer
- Pancho Vladigerov
- 1969: Jolán Balogh
- Albín Brunovský
- Bohuslav Fuchs
- Mihail Jora
- Marijan Matković
- Ksawery Piwocki
- France Stele
- 1970: Jan Białostocki
- Jan Filip
- Zoltán Franyó
- Milovan Gavazzi
- Gyula Illyés
- Yiannis Papaioannou
- Zeko Torbov
- 1971: Jiří Kolář
- Blaže Koneski
- Georgios Megas
- Kazimierz Michałowski
- Mihail Sokolovski
- Zaharia Stancu
- Bence Szabolcsi
- 1972: Dragotin Cvetko
- Atanas Dalchev
- Branko Maksimović
- Gyula Ortutay
- Jaroslav Pešina
- Henryk Stażewski
- Virgil Vătășianu
- 1973: Veselin Beshevliev
- Stylianos Harkianakis
- János Harmatta
- Zbigniew Herbert
- Eugen Jebeleanu
- Petar Lubarda
- Jan Racek
- 1974: Władysław Czerny
- Ivan Duichev
- Ivo Frangeš
- László Gerő
- Stylianos Pelekanidis
- Ján Podolák
- Zeno Vancea
- 1975: Józef Burszta
- Hristo M. Danov
- Stanislav Libenský
- Maria Ana Musicescu
- Gábor Preisich
- Pandelis Prevelakis
- Stanojlo Rajičić
- 1976: Jagoda Buić
- Marin Goleminov
- Ioannis Kakridis
- Dezső Keresztury
- Nichita Stănescu
- Rudolf Turek
- Kazimierz Wejchert
- 1977: Nikolaos Andriotis
- Riko Debenjak
- Emmanuel Kriaras
- Albert Kutal
- Máté Major
- Krzysztof Penderecki
- Anastas Petrov
- Ion Vladutiu
- 1978: Eugen Barbu
- Đurđe Bošković
- Kazimierz Dejmek
- Stoyan Dzudzev
- Béla Gunda
- Jiří Hrůza
- Yiannis Spyropoulos
- 1979: Magdalena Abakanowicz
- Ferenc Farkas
- Zdenko Kolacio
- Atanas Natev
- András Sütő
- Pavel Trost
- Apostolos E. Vacalopoulos
- 1980: Gordana Babić-Đorđević
- Iván Balassa
- Kamil Lhoták
- Manousos Manousakas
- Vera Mutafchieva
- Alexandru Rosetti
- Wiktor Zin
- 1981: Emil Condurachi
- Sándor Csoóri
- Stefka Georgieva
- Dimitrios Loukatos
- Vjenceslav Richter
- Eugen Suchoň
- Elida Maria Szarota
- 1982: Athanasios Aravantinos
- Ana Blandiana
- Vojislav J. Đurić
- Sona Kovacevicová
- Aleksandar Nichev
- Jan Józef Szczepański
- Imre Varga
- 1983: Władysław Bartoszewski
- Géza Entz
- Jozef Jankovič
- Gunther Schuller
- Zdenko Škreb
- Stefana Stoykova
- C. A. Trypanis
- 1984: Emilijan Cevc
- Konstantinos Dimaras
- Karel Horálek
- György Konrád
- Constantin Lucaci
- Krasimir Manchev
- Krzysztof Meyer
- 1985: Branko Fučić
- Růžena Grebeníčková
- Adrian Marino
- Demetrios Pallas
- Károly Perczel
- Simeon Pironkov
- Andrzej Wajda
- 1986: Georgi Baev
- Tekla Dömötör
- Boris Gaberščik
- Konrad Górski
- Johannes Karayannopoulos
- Jiří Kotalík
- Anatol Vieru
- 1987: Roman Brandstaetter
- Doula Mouriki
- József Ujfalussy
- Vladimir Veličković
- Velizar Velkov
- Gheorghe Vrabie
- 1988: Roman Berger
- Christos Kapralos
- Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga
- György Györffy
- Donka Petkanova
- Mieczysław Porębski
- Edvard Ravnikar
- 1989: Maria Banuș
- Ákos Birkás
- Jerzy Buszkiewicz
- Václav Frolec
- Nikolai Genchev
- Petar Miljković-Pepek
- Nikos Gabriel Pentzikis
- 1990: Liviu Calin
- Bronisław Geremek
- Aris Konstantinidis
- Dejan Medaković
- Virginia Paskaleva
- Adriena Šimotová
- András Vizkelety
- 1991: Maja Bošković-Stulli
- Gerard Labuda
- Andor Pigler
- Yorgos Sicilianos
- Emil Skála
- Marin Sorescu
- Stoimen Stoilov
- 1992: Manolis Andronikos
- Jenő Barabás
- Blaga Dimitrova
- Stefan Kaszynski
- Jiří Kořalka
- Zmaga Kumer
- Jon Nicodim
- 1993: Vasilka Gerasimova-Tomova
- Petro Kononenko
- György Kurtág
- Jerzy Tchórzewski
- Răzvan Theodorescu
- Elena Várossová
- Māra Zālīte
- Dionysis Zivas
- Viktor Žmegač
- 1994: István Borzsák
- Dževad Juzbašić
- Ștefan Niculescu
- Andrzej Szczypiorski
- Jitka and Květa Válová
- Takis Varvitsiotis
- Zigmas Zinkevičius
- 1995: Sándor Kányádi
- Mirko Kovač
- Milcho Lalkov
- Michael G. Meraklis
- Mindaugas Navakas
- Wisława Szymborska
- Jaan Undusk
- 1996: Tamás Hofer
- Karel Hubáček
- Konstantin Iliev
- Marin Mincu
- Jože Pogačnik
- Pēteris Vasks
- Marian Zgórniak
- 1997: Tasos Athanasiadis
- Bogdan Bogdanović
- Oskár Elschek
- Ferenc Glatz
- Lech Kalinowski
- Jaan Kross
- Dunja Rihtman-Auguštin
- 1998: Imre Bak
- Andrei Corbea-Hoișie
- Eliška Fučíková
- Ismail Kadare
- Justinas Marcinkevičius
- Dorota Simonides
- Elena Toncheva
- 1999: Svetlana Alexievich
- Vera Bitrakova-Grozdanova
- Mircea Dinescu
- István Fried
- Henryk Górecki
- Dževad Karahasan
- Ferdinand Milučký
- 2000: Ján Bakoš
- Ivan Čolović
- Nikola Georgiev
- Imre Kertész
- Milan Kundera
- Karolos Mitsakis
- Arvo Pärt
- 2001: Yurii Andrukhovych
- Janez Bernik
- János Böhönyey
- Maria Kłańska
- Marek Kopelent
- Andrej Mitrović
- Evanghelos Moutsopoulos
- 2002: George Demetrius Bambiniotis
- Māris Čaklais
- Péter Esterházy
- Radost Ivanova
- Nedjeljko Fabrio
- Aurel Stroe
- Lech Trzeciakowski
- 2003: Vasil Gyuzelev
- Drago Jančar
- Károly Manherz
- Stanisław Mossakowski
- Ales Rasanau
- Ludvík Václavek
- Ana Maria Zahariade
- 2004: Theodore Antoniou
- Michał Głowiński
- Dušan Kováč
- Fatos Lubonja
- Éva Pócs
- Kazimir Popkonstantinov
- Romualdas Požerskis
- 2005: Károly Klimó
- Hanna Krall
- Primož Kuret
- Jiří Kuthan
- Andrei Marga
- Eimuntas Nekrošius
- Krešimir Nemec
- 2006: Włodzimierz Borodziej
- Nicos Hadjinicolaou
- Gabriela Kiliánová
- Ene Mihkelson
- Vojteh Ravnikar