JOVAN ĐORĐEVIĆ Writer; (b. Senta, 13/25 November 1826 – d. Belgrade, 9/22 April 1900)

Founder and director of the National Theatre in Belgrade; professor of Belgrade Higher School; General history; minister of education

Membership of Society of Serbian Letters (SSL): corresponding member from 13 January 1863

Membership of Serbian Learned Society (SLS): Board for Philosophical and Philological Sciences and Board for Promotion of Science and Literature among the People from 1883; corresponding member appointed on 29 July 1864; full member from 6 February 1869; secretary of the Board for Philosophical and Philological Sciences 1884–1887 and in 1888

Membership of Serbian Royal Academy (SRA): honorary member from 15 November 1892

Biographies, bibliographies: Dod. Pomeniku, 38–39 (M. Đ. Milićević). – Hr E 5 (Uredništvo). – Jeremić, 157–158 (P. Jeremić). – Ministri prosvete Srbije 1811–1918. Belgrade 1994, 100–101. – HE 1 (B. Petrović). – EJ 3 (M. Leskovac). – LPJ 2 (B. Kovaček). – ESI 3368–369 (B. Kovaček). – Nova iskra 2 (1900) 156 (Anonymous)

Obituary: BK 6 (1900) 635–638 (Anonymous). – PG 21 (1900) 534–535 (Anonymous). – (SKA) God. 14 (1901) 323–332 (J. Turoman). – Rad i imenik MC za 1900 c dodacima (1901) I dodatak, 1–9 (Anonymous). – Nastavnik 11 (1901) 124–126 [C. N. Tomić]

Photograph: SANU–F 98, 98/1