Rector of the University of Belgrade
Slobodan Jovanović took which position from 1920 to 1921?
Slobodan Jovanović Slobodan Jovanović ( ; 3 December 1869 – 12 December 1958 ) was a Serbian and Yugoslav writer , historian , lawyer , philosopher , literary critic , diplomat and politician , and one of the most prominent intellectuals of his time . He was the professor at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law ( 1897—1940 ) , Rector of the University of Belgrade ( 1913–14 and 1920–21 ) , and the President of the Serbian Royal Academy ( 1928–1931 ) . He took part at the Paris Peace Conference ( 1919 ) as an expert for the Yugoslav Government . Jovanović was the Deputy Prime Minister ( March 1941 - June 1942 ) and the Prime Minister of the Royal Yugoslav government-in-exile in London between January 1942 and June 1943 . After World War II , the new Communist authorities of Yugoslavia sentenced him in absentia to 20 years imprisonment . Jovanović remained at liberty for the rest of his life in London . Biography . Slobodan Jovanović was born in Novi Sad , then part of Austria-Hungary ( present-day Serbia ) on 3 December 1869 to politician Vladimir Jovanović and his wife Jelena . He was reportedly the first Serbian male to be named Slobodan ( sloboda means freedom in Serbian ) , while his sister was named Pravda ( Justice ) . He received an excellent education in Belgrade , Munich , Zurich , and Geneva , where he graduated with a law degree . From 1890 to 1892 , he took post-graduate studies in constitutional law and political science in Paris before entering the Serbian foreign service . In 1893 he was appointed political attaché with the Serbian mission to Constantinople , where he remained for a couple years . It was at this time that he began to write and have his articles on literary criticism published in various publications throughout the land . He eventually left the diplomatic service in favour of academia and literary pursuits and became a contributing author and literary critic for several notable newspapers of the time . In 1897 he was appointed professor at the University of Belgrades Faculty of Law . During the Balkan Wars and the First World War he was the Head of Serbian War Office Press Bureau . In this period Jovanović became acquainted with Dragutin Dimitrijević Apis and wrote positively of him . Shortly after the foundation of the Kingdom of Serbs , Croats , and Slovenes , in 1920 , Stojan Protić , acting as Prime Minister of the Temporary National Representation , appointed Jovanović as the President of a multi-ethnic constitutional drafting committee alongside Kosta Kumanudi , Bogumil Vošnjak , Ladislav Polić , and Lazar Marković which later that year presented the first draft of what would later become the Vidovdan Constitution . For more than four decades , Jovanović taught at the law faculty gaining a reputation as an authority on constitutional law and Serbian language and literature . He was Rector of the University of Belgrade on two separate occasions and Dean of Faculty of Law . Jovanović joined the Serbian Royal Academy in 1908 , and was its President from 1928 to 1931 . He was also a correspondent member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb from 1927 . Slobodan Jovanović was a critic of Hans Kelsens Pure Theory of Law . His criticism was not simply dismissive however . His primary remarks are on the relation of Kelsens theory to other German theorists at the time . He considered Kelsen an innovative young theorist , but thought that his framework was not as dissimilar to more classical theories that Kelsen , in Jovanovićs opinion , tried to attack . Namely , Jovanović posited that the special position of the Basic norm for Kelsen could be reduced to the framework of more classical German theories , in which the state is a legal person from which the legal system originates , and vice versa . Jovanović considered this to be a flaw of Kelsens Legal positivism that makes it a theory that does not truly address the origins of the law , as it fails to truly separate in analysis the legal system from the state as an actor . In this way , Jovanović rejects an analysis that would fully divorce the man as a legal creature , from man as a political one . Jovanović had some influence on political life in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia due to his well established authority in the field of law and history , but he entered directly political life only in 1939 when the Serbian Cultural Club was established , and he was appointed as Clubs president . He was a pro-Western politician and when a pro-Western military coup took place in Belgrade on 27 March 1941 , a pro-Western , essentially pro-British government was installed headed by General Dušan Simović . Jovanović was deputy Prime Minister in that government . The Third Reich attacked the Kingdoms of Yugoslavia and Greece on 6 April , and soon defeated Yugoslav and Greek forces . Jovanović moved in mid April together with King Peter II and other cabinet ministers to Jerusalem and he reached London in July . He became prime minister of the Yugoslav government-in-exile during World War II on 11 January 1942 and remained in that position until 26 June 1943 . Tried in absence in Josip Broz Titos communist state together with general Draža Mihailović , he was sentenced to 20 years in jail which he never served , as well as the loss of political and civil rights for a period of ten years , and confiscation of all property and loss of citizenship . He spent his later years in exile in London ( 1945–1958 ) . A memorial plaque in honour of Professor Slobodan Yovanovitch , Serbian historian , literary critic , legal scholar , Prime Minister of Yugoslavia may be found in London at 39b Queens Gate Gardens , Kensington . After unofficial rehabilitation in 1989 , his collected works were published in 1991 . Legacy . Jovanović was decorated Order of Osmanieh and Order of Saint Sava . In Serbia , he is regarded as one of the most influential liberals and political thinkers of the turn of the century . A number of his writings on a number of ideas such as Machiavellism and Platonist ideas of state are still relevant today . Leading Serbian journal Politika on the occasion of his 70th birthday concluded that his name has been carved as the highest peak of our culture up to now . Works . His collected works were published in 17 volumes in 1939–1940 . They contain the results of his unremitting labour as a writer , professor and politician for sixty years , and throw considerable light on Balkan history of the first half of the 20th century , as well as on the author himself . Although his works were not officially banned , any new issue of his books was not permitted in communist Yugoslavia until the late 1980s . Finally , a new edition of his collected works was published in Belgrade in 12 volumes in 1991 . Since 2003 his portrait has appeared on the 5000 dinar banknote , and his bust stands at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade . His official rehabilitation occurred on 26 October 2007 by a Belgrade court . Since 10 December 2011 , plateau in front of Faculty of Law in Belgrade bears his name . - [ On Sovereignty , Belgrade , 1897 ] . - [ On Bicameral System , Belgrade , 1899 ] . - [ Great Peoples Assembly , Belgrade , 1900 ] . - [ Serbo-Bulgarian War . A paper in diplomatic history ] , Belgrade 1901 ] . - [ Svetozar Markovic , Belgrade 1903 ] . - [ An Introduction to the Legal Theory on State , Belgrade , 1906 ] . - [ An Introduction to the Public Law of the Kingdom of Serbia , Belgrade , 1907–1909 , in two volumes ] . - Makiaveli , Beograd 1907 . - [ Political and Legal Considerations , Belgrade , 1908–1910 , in two volumes ] . - [ Constitutionalists and their Government ( Belgrade : Serbian Royal Academy , 1912 ) . - [ University Question , Belgrade , 1914 ] . - [ Leaders of the French Revolution , Belgrade , 1920 ] . - [ On State , Belgrade , 1922 ] , his capital work - [ The Second Rule of Milosh and Michael , Belgrade , 1923 ] . - [ Constitutional Law of the Kingdom of Serbs , Croats and Slovenes , Belgrade , 1924 ] . - [ The Rule of Milan Obrenovich ( Belgrade : Geca Kon , 1926–1927 ) , in two volumes ] . - . [ The Rule of Alexander Obrenovich ( Belgrade : Geca Kon , 1929–1931 , in two volumes ] . - [ From the History of Political Doctrines , Belgrade , 1935 ] . - [ Slobodan Jovanovic , Gladstone ( Belgrade : Jugo-istok , 1938 ) ] . - [ American Federalism , Belgrade , 1939 ] . - [ Examples of Political Sociology : England , France and Germany , 1815–1914 , Belgrade , 1940 ] . - [ On Totalitarianism ( Paris : Oslobodjenje , 1952 ] . - [ A Contribution to the Study of the Serbian National Character , Windsor /Canada/ , 1964 ] . - [ Notes on Problems and Individuals , 1941–1944 , London , 1976 ) ] - Slobodan Jovanovich , Tito and the Western World ( reprinted from The Eastern Quarterly ) , London , 1952 , pg . 6 . - Slobodan Jovanovich , On the New Machiavellism ( reprinted from The Eastern Quarterly ) , London , 1952 , pg . 5 . References . - Jovan Skerlić : Istorija nove srpske književnosti ( Belgrade , 1914 ) , page 382 Sources . - Britannica - Dimitrije Djordjevic ( 1973 ) . «Historians in Politics : Slobodan Jovanovic» . Journal of Contemporary History 8 ( 1 ) : pp . 21–40 . External links . - Slobodan Jovanović Fund