Nationality Serb Vasojevic | Name Jovan Zujovic | |
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Born 18 October 1856
Brusnica (Gornji Milanovac), Principality of Serbia ( 1856-10-18 ) Died 19 July 1936(1936-07-19) (aged 79)
Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes Fields Anthropology, Paleoanthropology
Geology Institutions Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Alma mater University of Belgrade, University of Paris | ||
Resting place Novo groblje, Belgrade | ||
Gimnazija takovski ustanak t jovan ujovi
Jovan M. Žujović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован M. Жујовић) (Brusnica, Gornji Milanovac, 18 October 1856 - Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 19 July 1936) was an anthropologist, known as a pioneer in geological and paleontological science in Serbia. Before him, only two others showed any interest in geology in Serbia, Johann Gottfried Herder and Ami Boué.
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Life and work
Žujović was named among the first four members of the Academy of Natural Sciences of the Serbian Royal Academy by King Milan I of Serbia on 5 April 1887. From 1915 to 1921, Žujović was the president of Serbian Royal Academy.
He is known, among other things, for his work in anthropology. In his book, Stone Age, published in 1893, relying mostly on French scientists, he reviewed the contemporary state of knowledge in paleoanthropology.
Later, between 1927, and 1929, in the book Genesis of the Earth and Our Country, he wrote about the biological past of the Earth starting from the beginning of mankind. The work takes particular interest in the history of the Balkan peninsula.
In Serbian politics, he was a devoted democrat, Senator in 1901 and the member of the People's Radical Party of Nikola Pašić. After 1905, Žujović joined the Independent Radical Party of Ljubomir Stojanović. In the government of Independent Radicals, Žujović was a Minister of Foreign Affairs from 12 August to 15 December 1905. Also, Žujović held the post of Minister of Education and Religious Affairs on two occasions, from 16 May to 30 July 1905, and from 11 October 1909 to 12 September 1910.
Jovan Žujović had two brothers, Milenko Žujović, who authored books on jurisprudence, and Dr. Jevrem Žujović, whose mentor was Jean Alfred Fournier.
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Legacy
He is included in The 100 most prominent Serbs.