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{{Short description|Serbian historian (1937–2013}}
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| education = [[Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade]]
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'''Andrej Mitrović''' ({{lang-sr-cyr|Андреј Митровић}}; 17 April 1937 – 25 August 2013) was a [[Serbia]]n historian, corresponding member of the [[Serbian Academy of Science and Arts]] and member of the [[Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Umro Andrej Mitrović|url=http://www.vijesti.me/kultura/umro-andrej-mitrovic-clanak-146453|access-date=9 February 2014|newspaper=Vijesti
A specialist of the contemporary history of Serbia and Yugoslavia, he was considered the leading Serbian historian of his generation and as such one of the best-known Serbian academics of the 20th century.<ref name="Cox 2002 p.118 ">{{cite book | last=Cox | first=J.K. | title=The History of Serbia | publisher=Greenwood Press | series=Greenwood histories of the modern nations | year=2002 | isbn=978-0-313-31290-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U765FGDfbPoC | access-date=2022-10-27 | page=}}</ref>
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Andrej Mitrović was born in Kragujevac on 17 April 1937, he completed elementary and secondary school in [[Kragujevac]]. Mitrović graduated in history from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, earning his master's degree in 1964 and his doctorate in 1967.<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> He became faculty assistant in 1961, assistant professor in 1967, associate professor in 1974. In 1980 he became Professor 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 member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.<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>
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>
==Selected works==▼
* {{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}}▼
== 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>
* {{Cite book|last=Mitrović|first=Andrej|author-link=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|last=Митровић|first=Андреј|author-link=Andrej Mitrović|title=Србија у Првом светском рату|year=1984|location=Београд|publisher=Српска књижевна задруга|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3AIzAAAAMAAJ}}▼
== 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" />
* {{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=9781557534767|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CI5Wm8771EYC}}▼
▲== Selected works ==
=== Books ===
▲* ''Yugoslavia at the Peace Conference in Paris'' (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'' (1974, Zavod za izdavanje udžbenika)
* ''Historical in the Magic Mountain'' (1977, Zavod za izdavanje udžbenika)
▲* ''Entering the Balkans, Serbia in the Plans of Austria-Hungary and Germany 1908-1918.'' (1981, Zavod za izdavanje udžbenika)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Mitrović|first=Andrej|author-link=Andrej Mitrović|title=Prodor na Balkan: Srbija u planovima Austro-Ugarske i Nemačke
* ''Engaged and Beautiful'' (1983, Zavod za izdavanje udžbenika)
* ''Arguments with Clio'' (1991, Zavod za izdavanje udžbenika)
▲* ''The Toplica Uprising'' (1993, Zavod za izdavanje udžbenika)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Митровић|first=Андреј|author-link=Andrej Mitrović|title=
* ''About God's State and Evil Salvation'' (2007, Zavod za izdavanje udžbenika)
* ''Culture and History'' (2008, Zavod za izdavanje udžbenika)
* ''About God's State and Evil Salvation'' (2007, Zavod za izdavanje udžbenika)
▲* ''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
== References ==
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== 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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