Draft:Milan Cemerikic

Milan Čemerikić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Чемерикић; Prizren, Old Serbia, Ottoman Empire, 12 February 1877 - Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1940) was a Serbian national worker, journalist, translator, teacher, economist and banker.

Childhood and Youth

Milan Čemerikić was born on 12 February 1877 in Prizren. He finished primary school in Prizren. Thanks to his respectable parents, he had good conditions for education. In Prizren, he learned to speak the Turkish language, Arnaut and Old Slavonic. He attended the seminary in Galatasaray High School in Constantinople. He attended the Faculty of Philosophy at Velika škola in Belgrade. He graduated in 1903 and immediately after that he became a professor at the Theological-Teacher's College in Prizren, where he taught Serbian, French and Science. From 1907 to 1909 he was a teacher at the Serbian Gymnasium in Skopje, and during 1910 he also worked briefly in Thessaloniki. From 1910, he started working as a journalist and published many articles in Skopje newspapers.

National work

In addition to his work as a professor, he dealt with the economic and national problems of the Serbs. He was associated with a revolutionary organization. However, the opportunities after the Young Turk Revolution made public political work possible. In 1908, he was elected to the central committee of the Serb Democratic League, the first Serbian party in the Ottoman Empire. He had a position in the Regional Committee of the organization for the Thessaloniki Vilayet. He was the link between the Serbian legal party, but also a secret organization with the Young Turks committee Unity and Progress. For a time he was the editor of the Constantinople Herald, the only Serbian newspaper in the Ottoman Empire. During 1912, he opposed the demands of the Serbian government to negotiate with the Young Turks, and he also opposed the attempt to support the election of Bogdan Radenković as the Metropolitan of Raška-Prizren.

During the wars

During the First Balkan War he was a war correspondent from Cetinje and the Adriatic Sea, and in the Second Balkan War he reported from Skopje. He participated in the First World War first as a soldier, and after the withdrawal of the Serbian army, he was a translator for a while, and later edited a confidential review of the enemy's press at the Serbian Press Bureau in Geneva.

After the wars

After the First World War in Skopje, he first edited Privredni glasnik, and then Juzna Srbija (Southern Serbia). From 1921 to 1932, he was the director of a bank in Skopje.

Literature

• Zoran Č. Vukadinović , Milan Čemerikić, Baština 22(2007) pages 323-331)
• Српска демократска лига у Отоманској царевини (Викизворник)

See also

• Serb Democratic League
• Bogdan Radenković,
• Đorđe Hadži-Kostić,
• David Dimitrijević,
• Aleksandar Bukvic,
• Jovan Šantrić,
• Velimir Prelić,
• Sava Stojanovic
• Vasa Jovanović and
• Gliša Elezović

References

• Translated from Serbian Wikipedia: https://sr.wikipedia.org/sr-ec/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%9B