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Jevrem Grujić

Jevrem Grujić (Darosava, near Kragujevac, 8 November 1827 – Belgrade, 15 September 1895) was a Serbian writer, lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He is considered as one of the most important representatives of liberalism, parliamentarism and constitutionalism in Serbia.

Biography

His background is indicative of the social profile of the incipient political class in Serbia in the first half of the nineteenth century: his grandfather took part in the First and the Second Serbian Uprisings, his father was a merchant and high-ranking state official, while Jevrem himself belonged to the first generation of native Serbian intelligentsia with foreign university diplomas. His elementary schooling was irregular, owing to the duties he had to perform in his family household. Later, he attended high school and Lyceum in Belgrade. In his writings, memories from childhood came to have an important place. As a student in Belgrade, he actively participated in the foundation — in 1847 — of the youth organization Družina mladeži srpske (Association of Serbian Youth). In 1849 he obtained a scholarship from the Serbian government and went to Heidelberg to study law. Grujić, having left University of Heidelberg where a history professor had called Serbs barbarians, found his ardent patriotism severely shaken by his overwhelming first impression of Paris; within two years, however, he had jointly published a book with another student form Serbia, Milovan Janković -- Slaves du Sud -- so nationalistic that it claimed Sir Thomas More could never have written Utopia if he had seen Serb peasant society. That book enraged the Serbian authorities that they eventually cancelled his stipend. He nevertheless finished law school in 1854 and returned to Belgrade. There he joined a "liberal circle" that included Milovan Janković, Jovan Ilić, Alimpije Vasiljević, Jovan Bošković, Vladimir Jovanović and others. In 1858 Grujić entered politics as a secretary of the St. Andrew’s National Assembly (Svetoandrejska skup-ština), which later overthrew Prince Alexander Karađorđević. Grujić led the liberal wing of deputies, which promulgated a new law whereby the National Assembly would be held regularly and elected by popular vote. During the rule of the Obrenović dynasty he held several important official positions, such as Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs (1859) and Minister of Justice (1860). His outspoken liberalism, however, brought him harassment and also imprisonment. Grujić was one of the founders in 1867 and first president of the United Serbian Youth (Ujedinjena Omladina Srpska). He also featured among the founders of the Liberal party and served as its leader between 1868 and 1878. During the Serbo-Turkish war (1876–1878) he held the post of Prime Minister. He ended his political career as the Serbian ambassador to Paris in 1892.

Works

• Slaves du Sud ou le peuple Serbe avec les Croates et les Bulgares, 1853;
• Uspomene (Memories), 1864;
• Zapisi (Writings) 3 vols., 1922–1923.

References

• Translated and adapted from Serbian Wikipedia: https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%88%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC_%D0%93%D1%80%D1%83%D1%98%D0%B8%D1%9B
• Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts: http://www.sanu.ac.rs/English/Clanstvo/IstClan.aspx?arg=124, 216.8.135.8 (talk) 01:10, 9 July 2018 (UTC)