Miloš Milojević

Milojevic's Greater Serbian map.

Miloš S. Milojević (1840-1897) was a Serbian lawyer and historian.

Biography

Miloš S. Milojević, son of a parish priest, was born at Crna Bara (Bogatić) in Mačva, Serbia, on the 16th of October 1840. He graduated with a law degree from Belgrade's Grande École in 1862; studied philosophy, philology and history at the University of Moscow, from 1862 to 1865. Milojević returned to Serbia in 1866, worked for the government judicial system, and later taught at high schools in Valjevo, Belgrade and Leskovac.

He died at Belgrade on the 24th of June 1897. He was buried in Novo Groblje.

Historiography

In 1887 his old fashioned approach to historiography was challenged and debated by Ilarion Ruvarac and Ljubomir Kovačević and eventually proved erronious through critical methods, though not all of his scholarship was marred by their victory. He travelled to the Kosovo and Metohija region in 1871-1877 and left three volumes of data and maps which testify that Serbs were the majority and Albanians the minority population.^{[citation needed]} His demographical-statistical structure, however, matched an independent census taken by the Austrian authorities at about the same time.^{[citation needed]} Because of his ideas about Greater Serbia and Serbisation, he is also known as Mad Milosh in Bulgaria.^[1][2][3]

Works

• Odlomci istorije Srba i srpskih - jugoslavenskih - zemalja u Turskoj i Austriji, Beograd, 1872.
• Pesme i običaji ukupnog naroda srpskog
• Putopisi dela prave - Stare Srbije
• Naši manastiri i kaluđerstvo
• Prva dečanska hrisovulja
• Druga dečanska hrisovulja

Translations from Russian

• Običaji velikorusa
• Maljuta Skuratov (in two volumes)

Manuscripts

• Putopise (in nine segments)
• Četvrta knjiga pesama i običaja
• Nemanjića
• Prizrenska tapija
• Pravila svete Petke paraskeve srpske
• Pravila svetom Simenu srpskom
• Opšti list iz Patrijaršije Pećske
• Odgovor na izmišljotine u 10 i 12 broju Budućnosti, pod imenom: Naša agitacija na istok

References

1. ^ Как бе посърбен Пирот
2. ^ Владимир Русков, Защо Народната библиотека "Св. св. Кирил и Методий" не "помни" нищо за Западните покрайнини?
3. ^ Iz arkhiva na Konstantin Irechek, Volume 1

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Name	Milojević, Miloš
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Date of birth	1840
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Date of death	1897
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