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{{Short description|Serbian historian (1937–2013)}}
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{{Infobox academic
| name = Andrej Mitrović
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| death_place = [[Belgrade]], [[Serbia]]
| nationality = Yugoslav, Serbian
| spouse = Ljubinka Trgovčević
| other_names =
| discipline = History
| sub_discipline = <!--academic discipline specialist area – e.g. Sub-atomic research, 20th Century Danish specialist, Pauline research, Arcadian and Ugaritic specialist-->
| alma_mater = {{ubl | [[Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade|Faculty of Philosophy]]|[[Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade|University of Belgrade]]}} (PhD)
| thesis_title = Yugoslavia at the Paris Peace Conference 1919-1920
| thesis_year = 1967
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*[[Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade|University of Belgrade]]
}}
| main_interests = {{hlist | [[modern history]] | [[historiography]] | [[social history]] | [[economic history]] | [[history of political thought]] | [[cultural history]]}}
| notable_works = {{Plainlist|
*''Times Intolerant'' (1974)
*''Serbia's Great War'' (2005)
}}
}}
'''Andrej Mitrović''' ({{lang-sr-cyr|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 [[World War I|First World War]], the [[Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)|Paris Peace Conference]], [[Interwar period|interwar Europe]] as well as articles on economic, social, cultural history and [[historiography]].
== Early life and education ==
Andrej Mitrović was born in [[Kragujevac]],
== Academic career ==
He 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.<ref name="Cambridge" /> The first edition was greeted in scholarly circles as a "scrupulously written [[Masterpiece|magnum opus]]".<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Miloradović |first=Goran |year=2014-01-01 |title=Andrej Mitrović. Serbia’s Great War, 1914-1918. Introduction by Professor Mark Cornwall, Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, London 2007 |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/ts/10/2/article-p1_8.xml?rskey=O05qgS&result=1 |journal=Transcultural Studies |volume=10 |issue=2 |issn=1930-6253}}</ref>▼
Mitrović became faculty assistant in 1961, assistant professor in 1967, associate professor in 1974; that year he published ''Time of the Intolerant: A Political History of Europe's Great Powers, 1919–1939'', his award-winning book about the [[Interwar period|interwar]] growing ideological divisions and the intolerance that resulted from it.<ref name="Cambridge" />
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.<ref name="sanu.ac.rs 2014" /> In 1988 he became a corresponding fellow of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, spending research years in Italy and West Germany.<ref name="Štavljanin 2013">{{cite web | last=Štavljanin | first=Dragan | title=In memoriam: Andrej Mitrović, kritičar vremena netrpeljivih | website=Radio Slobodna Evropa | date=2013-08-26 | url=https://www.slobodnaevropa.org/a/in-memoriam-andrej-mitrovic-krticar-vremena-netrpeljivih/25086777.html | language=sr}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Burke 2001 p.">{{cite book | last=Burke | first=P. | title=New Perspectives on Historical Writing | publisher=Polity Press | year=2001 | isbn=978-0-7456-2428-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BBnFQwAACAAJ}}</ref>
Mitrović was a lifelong pacifist who opposed nationalism and advocated for a modern European oriented Serbia. In the 1990s he was an outspoken critic of the regime of [[Slobodan Milošević]]. He participated in demonstrations, spoke to crowds, gave interviews, and wrote articles criticising the regime.<ref name="Kulačin Sporazum za nesporazum Lukač JUL 2013">{{cite web | last=Kulačin | first=Nenad | author2=Sporazum za nesporazum | last3=Lukač | first3=Jasmina | last4=JUL | first4=Moja Srbija kao | author5=Ime autora poznato redakciji | last6=Singapura | first6=Srbija do | last7=Vidojković | first7=Marko | title=Netrpeljiv prema netrpeljivima | website=Dnevni list Danas | date=2013-08-30 | url=https://www.danas.rs/vesti/drustvo/netrpeljiv-prema-netrpeljivima/ | language=sr}}</ref> In April 1999 with a number of prominent Serbian intellectual, he was a signatory of “A plea for peace from Belgrade”.<ref name="the Guardian 1999">{{cite web | title=A plea for peace from Belgrade | website=the Guardian | date=1999-04-23 | url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/apr/23/balkans16}}</ref> Always risking getting dismissed from his university position, he was kept away from becoming a permanent member of the Serbian Academy.<ref name="h-net.msu.edu 2014">{{cite web | title=Nachruf auf Professor Dr. Andrej Mitrović (1937-2013) | website=Humanities and Social Sciences Online | date=2014-01-16 | url=http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-Soz-u-Kult&month=1309&week=c&msg=xyZBfpK6Df0V%2BrprQzb2dw | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116093525/http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-Soz-u-Kult&month=1309&week=c&msg=xyZBfpK6Df0V%2BrprQzb2dw | archive-date=2014-01-16 | url-status=dead }}</ref>▼
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== Awards ==▼
Mitrović received the October Award of the City of Belgrade for science in 1975. In 2001 he was awarded the [[Herder Prize]] for his many contributions to the field by the [[University of Vienna]] and the [[Alfred Toepfer Foundation]] of Hamburg. In 2004 Germany's Southeast European Association selected him on similar grounds for its [[Konstantin Jireček]] Medal.<ref name="Cambridge">{{cite web |last1=Lampe |first1=JR |title=IN MEMORIAM Andrej Mitrovic, 1937–2013 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/F3A745C924B81A499C2DB0C76C2E9E44/S0037677900022786a.pdf/div-class-title-andrej-mitrovi-1937-2013-div.pdf |website=cambridge.org |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref>▼
== 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 {{Lang|sr|Druga Srbija}} ([[Other Serbia]]).{{efn|[[Other Serbia]] became during the 1990s, a term to designate intellectuals who were [[Anti-war movement|anti-war]] and opposed to Serbian nationalism.<ref name="University of Southern Maine 2004">{{cite web |date=2004-11-03 |title=The Other Serbia |url=http://www.usm.maine.edu/bcj/publications/thos.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050219014622/http://www.usm.maine.edu/bcj/publications/thos.html |archive-date=2005-02-19 |access-date=2022-11-02 |website=University of Southern Maine}}</ref>}} 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.<ref name="Danas 2013">{{cite web |last=Stojanović |first=Dubravka |author-link=Dubravka Stojanović |date=2013-08-30 |title=Netrpeljiv prema netrpeljivima |url=https://www.danas.rs/vesti/drustvo/netrpeljiv-prema-netrpeljivima/ |website=Danas |language=sr}}</ref>
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* 2001 [[Herder Prize]] by the [[University of Vienna]] and the [[Alfred Toepfer Foundation]] of Hamburg<ref name="Cambridge"/>
* 2004 [[Konstantin Jireček]] Award by Germany's Southeast European Association<ref name="Cambridge"/>
== Personal life ==
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During his lifetime Mitrović published 25 books and approximately 400 articles.<ref name="Nedeljnik Vreme 2013">{{cite web | title=Andrej Mitrović (1937–2013) | website=Nedeljnik Vreme | date=2013-08-29 | url=https://www.vreme.com/projekat/andrej-mitrovic-1937-2013/ | language=sr}}</ref>
=== Books ===
* ''Yugoslavia at the 1919–1920 Peace Conference
* ''Time of the Intolerant
* ''Demarcation of Yugoslavia
* ''Historical in
* ''
* ''Engaged and Beautiful'' (1983
* ''Serbia in the First World War'' (1984)
* ''Arguments with Clio'' (1991, Zavod za izdavanje udžbenika)▼
* ''Insurgent Struggles in Serbia 1916–1918'' (1987)
* ''The Toplica Uprising'' (1993, Zavod za izdavanje udžbenika)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Митровић|first=Андреј|author-link=Andrej Mitrović|title=Устаничке борбе у Србији 1916–1918|year=1987|location=Београд|publisher=Српска књижевна задруга|isbn=9788637900610|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zgUzAAAAMAAJ|language=sr}}</ref>▼
▲* ''The Toplica Uprising'' (1993
* ''Culture and History'' (2008, Zavod za izdavanje udžbenika)▼
* ''About God's State and Evil Salvation'' (2007
* ''Serbia's Great War 1914–1918'' (2007, Purdue University Press)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Mitrović|first=Andrej|author-link=Andrej Mitrović|title=Serbia's Great War 1914–1918|year=2007|location=West Lafayette|publisher=Purdue University Press|isbn=978-1-55753-476-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CI5Wm8771EYC}}</ref>
== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
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[[Category:20th-century Serbian historians]]
[[Category:Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts]]
[[Category:Academic staff of the University of Belgrade
[[Category:University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy alumni]]
[[Category:Herder Prize recipients]]
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