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{{Short description|Serbian historian (1937–2013)}}
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| birth_name = Андреј Митровић▼
▲| birth_name = Андреј Митровић
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|08|25|1937|04|17|df=y}}
| nationality = Yugoslav, Serbian▼
| death_place = [[Belgrade]], [[Serbia]]
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▲| nationality = Yugoslav, Serbian
| spouse = Ljubinka Trgovčević
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| 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
| workplaces = {{Plainlist|
*[[Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade|University of Belgrade]]
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| 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)
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'''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]].
One of the leading Yugoslav and Serbian historians of the 20th century, Mitrović often challenged his own country's historical narratives and was openly critical of Serbian nationalism in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was a [[Academician|corresponding member]] of the [[Serbian Academy of Science and Arts]], a member of the [[Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts]], and the recipient of several prestigious awards.<ref>{{cite news |title=Umro Andrej Mitrović |newspaper=Vijesti |url=http://www.vijesti.me/kultura/umro-andrej-mitrovic-clanak-146453 |url-status=dead |access-date=9 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222180510/http://www.vijesti.me/kultura/umro-andrej-mitrovic-clanak-146453 |archive-date=22 February 2014}}</ref>
== Early life and education ==
Andrej Mitrović was born in [[Kragujevac]], [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]], where he completed elementary and secondary school. In 1961 Mitrović graduated in history from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, earning his master's degree in 1964 with the thesis "April negotiations on the Adriatic question at the 1919 Peace Conference" and his doctorate in 1967 with the thesis "Delegation of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes at the 1919–1920 Peace Conference".<ref name="sanu.ac.rs 2014">{{cite web |date=2014-02-22 |title=Хроника |url=http://www.sanu.ac.rs/Hronika.aspx?arg=65, |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222013027/http://www.sanu.ac.rs/Hronika.aspx?arg=65, |archive-date=2014-02-22 |website=sanu.ac.rs}}</ref>
== Academic career ==
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 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 [[John R. Lampe|John Lampe]], 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 |date=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 |doi=10.1163/23751606-01002008 |issn=1930-6253}}</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>
In 1991 they published an historian's proclamation against the [[Siege of Dubrovnik|shelling of Dubrovnik]]; that same year he published a book in which he warned against the effects of what he called ''parahistory'', a type of [[historical revisionism]] featuring the distortion of selected sources to indict one side or another.<ref name="Sindbæk 2015 p.">{{cite journal | last=Sindbæk | first=Tea | title=Representations of Yugoslavia's difficult past – from 1945 to 2002 | journal=Aarhus University Press | date=2015-01-28 | url=https://www.academia.edu/10358396}}</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> According to German Historian [[Alexander Korb]], as a consequence of his positions that stood out from most Serbian professional and academic circles, Mitrović was never promoted to full 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>
==Awards==
* 1975 City of Belgrade October Award<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>
* 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 ==
Andrej Mitrović was married to fellow historian Ljubinka Trgovčević. He died on 25 August 2013 in Belgrade.<ref name="sanu.ac.rs 2014" />
== Selected works ==
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>
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=== Books ===
* ''Yugoslavia at the 1919–1920 Peace Conference'' (1969, Zavod za izdavanje udžbenika)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Mitrović|first=Andrej|author-link=Andrej Mitrović|title=Jugoslavija na Konferenciji mira 1919-1920|year=1969|location=Beograd|publisher=Zavod za izdavanje udžbenika|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BkA5AQAAIAAJ|language=sr}}</ref>
* ''Time of the Intolerant: Political History of Europe's Great States 1919-1939'' (Belgrade 1974)
* ''Demarcation of Yugoslavia with Hungary and Romania: A Contribution to the Study of Yugoslav Politics at the Peace Conference in Paris'' (Novi Sad 1975)
* ''Historical in "The Magic Mountain"'' (1977)
* ''Penetrating the Balkans: Serbia in the Plans of Austria-Hungary and Germany 1908–1918.'' (1981)<ref>{{Cite book
* ''Engaged and Beautiful'' (1983)
* ''Serbia in the First World War'' (1984)
* ''Insurgent Struggles in Serbia 1916–1918'' (1987)
* ''Arguments with Clio'' (1991)
* ''The Toplica Uprising'' (1993)<ref>{{Cite book
* ''About God's State and Evil Salvation'' (2007)
* ''Culture and History'' (2008)
* ''Serbia's Great War 1914–1918'' (2007, Purdue University Press)<ref>{{Cite book
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▲* {{Cite book|ref=harv|last=Mitrović|first=Andrej|authorlink=Andrej Mitrović|title=Prodor na Balkan: Srbija u planovima Austro-Ugarske i Nemačke 1908-1918|year=1981|location=Beograd|publisher=Nolit|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZntpAAAAMAAJ}}
▲* {{Cite book|ref=harv|last=Митровић|first=Андреј|authorlink=Andrej Mitrović|title=Устаничке борбе у Србији 1916-1918|year=1987|location=Београд|publisher=Српска књижевна задруга|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zgUzAAAAMAAJ}}
▲* {{Cite book|ref=harv|last=Mitrović|first=Andrej|authorlink=Andrej Mitrović|title=Serbia's Great War 1914-1918|year=2007|location=West Lafayette|publisher=Purdue University Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CI5Wm8771EYC}}
== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140222013027/http://www.sanu.ac.rs/Hronika.aspx?arg=65, Obituary on the website of SANU]
* [http://www.danas.rs/dodaci/vikend/netrpeljiv_prema_netrpeljivima.26.html?news_id=266840 Netrpeljiv prema netrpeljivima] [Bigoted to bigoted]
* [https://www.slobodnaevropa.org/a/intervju-sa-andrejem-mitrovicem-iz-1999-godine/25086774.html Interview with Andrej Mitrović from 1999]
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