Atanasije NIKOLIĆ
Engineer;
(b. Brestovac, 18 January 1803 – d. Belgrade, 28 July 1882) 

Professor and rector of the Lyceum in Kragujevac, assistant to the minister of the Interior, and one of the founders of SSL; founders of schools of the economy in Belgrade

Membership of Society of Serbian Letters (SSL): full member from 27 May 1842; SSL Secretary in 1842/1843.

Membership of Serbian Learned Society (SLS): honorary member inducted on 29 July 1864

Biography and bibliography: V. Šolaja i A. Magdić: Inženjeri u knjaž. i kralj. Srbiji. Belgrade. 1994. – Savremenici i poslednici R 425/7 (B. Aleksijević). – Pomenik 431- 435 (M. Đ. Milićević). – NE 3 (V. Petrović). – ÖBL 32 (1976) 130–131 (S. K. Kostić). – LPJ 4, 702–703 (R. Adamović, B. Kovaček). – Pola veka nauke i tehnike u obnovljenoj Srbiji 1804–1854, 75–78 (V. Vojvodić).

Obituary: Javor 9 (1882) 1053–1054 (Anonymous).