Full Name Ivan Ivanic Nationality Serb | Name Ivan Ivanic | |
 | ||
Born April 24, 1867 ( 1867-04-24 ) Backo Gradiste, Becej, Austria-Hungary Died January 31, 1935(1935-01-31) (aged 67)
Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia Occupation writer, diplomat and journalist Known for Governor of the Durres County | ||
Ivan Ivanić (Bačko Gradište, Bečej, Austria-Hungary, April 24, 1867 – Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, January 31, 1935) was a diplomat of the Kingdom of Serbia and author of numerous works about ethnic groups in Serbia and the Balkans. He also wrote travel literature which described his travels in the region of Old Serbia (especially Kosovo and Metohija and Macedonia).
Contents
Biography
He began his diplomatic career as a secretary in the Serbian consulate in Priština. He later became vice consul and consul in Priština and Skopje (Kosovo Vilayet). He was later appointed as consul in Bitola (then Monastir Vilayet).
He participated in both public and secret Serbian activities to provide assistance to Macedonian rebels against the Ottoman Empire. He met his wife Delfa in Skopje, where she was a teacher between 1900 and 1903. She was one of the founders of the Circle of Serbian Sisters (Serbian: Kolo Srpskih Sestara), an organization whose establishment was proposed by Ivan Ivanić together with Branislav Nušić. They were childless and the name of their stepdaughter was Ivanka.
On November 29, 1912 he was appointed as the first governor of the Durrës County, while his wife Delfa led the city hospital in Durrës.
Besides his work as diplomat, Ivanić was editor of numerous magazines published in Serbian. In April 1887 he became the editor of "Sremac". Ivanić was one of two editors of the first issue of the magazine "Vardar". He also edited the magazine "Golub" which was published in 1905 in Istambul and distributed to Serbs in the Ottoman Empire.
Ivanić added his personal notes in works about Kosovo, Macedonia and the Serbian Orthodox Church and those notes were subject of different opinions of later researchers.