Monarch Milos I,
Michael I Preceded by Dorde Protic Preceded by Koca Markovic Succeeded by Aleksa Simic | Succeeded by Paun Jankovic Name Avram Petronijevic Monarch Alexander I Role Politician | |
Died April 22, 1852, Constantinople | ||
Avram Petronijević (September 13, 1791 – April 22, 1852) was a politician and several times Foreign Minister of the Principality of Serbia.
Petronijević was born in Tekija, on the Danube. He taught school in neighboring Orşova (now in Romania), and in 1817 he returned to Serbia. He became the personal secretary of Prince Miloš Obrenović. He was a member of the Serbian deputation in Constantinople from 1821 until 1826, and later several times a Serbian deputy (ćehaja) at the Turkish government (Porte). Later, with Toma Vučić-Perišić, Petronijević stood at the head of Ustavobranioci (Defenders of the Constitution) against the Prince Prince Miloš Obrenović. During the reign of Prince Alexander Karađorđevic, from 1844 until his death he was Minister of Foreign Affairs and Representative of the Prince (equivalent to today's Prime Minister). He died in Constantinople on April 22, 1852 and was buried in the church of St. Petka on the Bosporus, in addition to Samuilo Jakovljevic, his colleague from deputation, who died in 1824.