STOJAN BOŠKOVIĆ Historian, politician and diplomat; (b. Svilajnac, March 1833 – d. Belgrade, 21 February/5 March 1908)

Professor of Belgrade Higher School and minister of education

Membership of Society Of Serbian Letters (SSL): corresponding member from 21 January 1862

Membership of Serbian Learned Society (SLS): the Board for State and Historical Sciences; corresponding member appointed on 29 July 1864; full member from 6 February 1869; secretary of the Board for State and Historical Sciences (1872–1873; 1876–1877; 1881; 1890–1891); SLS president from 13 June 1876–1877.

Membership of Serbian Royal Academy (SRA): Academy of Social Sciences; corresponding member from 23 January 1888; full member ‘without commitment’ from 15 November 1892; Academy of Social Sciences; full member from 28 December 1892; secretary of the Academy of Social Sciences from 22 February 1896 until 22 February 1898

Accession speech: The Idea of Statehood in the Old and New Serbian Kingdom with an Overview of the Same Idea in Other Slavic People. Speech has not been printed. Delivered on 22 February 1894 [(SKA) Godišnjak 7 (1893) 152, 202–203].

Biographies, bibliographies: Srbadija 1: 9 (1875) 239–240. – Javor 5 (1878) 390–396. – Mali pomenik, 36–38. – Lovčević II, 54. – Hr E 3 (J. D. Mitrović). – HE 1 (Η. Rauntiljčić). – Ministri prosvete Srbije 1811–1918. Belgrade, 1994, 78–79. – LPJ 1 (Ž. R. Jovanović). – EJ 2 (Lj. Aleksić-Pejković). – ESI 294 (Đ. Bubalo).

Obituary: Nastavnik 19 (1908) 166–168 (M. J. Đorđević). – Delo 46 (1908) 386–390 (St. Lovčević). – SKG 20 (1908) 422–435 (V. Jovanović). – GNČ 28 (1909) 305–322 (M. Ivanić).

Photograph: SANU–F 194, 194/1