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of HRH Crown Prince Alexander II
ROYAL FAMILY AT CEREMONIAL COMMEMORATION IN HONOUR OF
THE LATE PRIME MINISTER SLOBODAN JOVANOVIC
Belgrade, 11 December 2008 – Their Royal Highnesses Crown
Prince Alexander II and Crown Princes Katherine accompanied by Their Royal
Highnesses Prince Vladimir and Princess Brigitta attended this evening a
ceremonial academy held at Kolarceva Endowment on the occasion of 50th
anniversary of death of the late Prime Minister of Yugoslavia Slobodan
Jovanovic.
Commemoration speeches were delivered by His Eminence
Metropolitan Amfilohije, HRH Crown Prince Alexander II, Mr. Matija Beckovic
and Prof. Dr. Branko Kovacevic, Rector of the Belgrade University.
In his speech the Crown Prince pointed out: “It is my
great pleasure to speak on this occasion dedicated to the memory of Slobodan
Jovanovic who is a unique person in our history, science and culture. He was
a complete man, a complete scientist with a great mind. By becoming the
Prime Minister in the Government of my father, King Peter II, he was
punished with lifelong exile and a burial place outside his homeland”.
Slobodan Jovanović was one of Serbia’s most prolific
jurists, historians, sociologists and journalists. He distinguished himself
with the characteristically clear and sharp writing style later called the
“Belgrade style”.
Slobodan Jovanović was liberal in his social and
political views, he was perhaps Yugoslavia’s greatest authority on
constitutional law; also a master of Serbian prose style, he was for nearly
half a century a leader of the Serbian intelligentsia. He graduated in law
in Geneva in 1890. In 1905, he became a Professor of the University of
Belgrade’s Law School. He kept this position until 1941.
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