Milos Perovic

Miloš Perović (1874-1918) was a Serbian poet, travel writer, dramatist, professor, psychologist, and pedagogue. 
==Biography==
Miloš Perović was born in Užice in Serbia where he completed his secondary schooling. Further studies took him to Belgrade, Vienna and Leipzig where he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in 1906. It was there that he obtained his Ph.D. by defending his thesis in psychology and pedagogical issues in Dositej Obradović's works. Employed as a lecturer in philosophy and German in Užice, he was an associate professor at the Grande école in Čačak, then full-fledged professor at the Serbian Grande école in Skoplje and in Solun.
Perović was among the first professors to leave Skoplje and enlist in the Serbian military at the outbreak of the First Balkan War,and by the Second Balkan War he was decorated with a Silver Medal for exceptional bravery under fire. The following year when World War I erupted he was also among the first to volunteer for service in the Serbian Armed Forces. He was promoted to officer status in a regiment of the Serbian Army, he was made head of a cheta In the 1914 battles, he was wounded in the leg and was transferred from the front to a hospital in Valjevo and later in Kragujevac his leg was amputated. In June 1915 Perović was decorated with the War Merit Order of Karađorđe's Star. Handicapped with a leg prosthesis, he was unable to keep pace with others during the Great Serbian Retreat and was captured by the Austrians and Bulgarians in Peć. Imprisoned and sent to a POW camp at Mauthausen in Austria with other Serbian high-ranking officers. Later on, he was freed in a prisoner exchange and sent to Como in Italy for medical treatment before going to Paris, where he died on 15 April 1918. Unfortunately, he didn't live to see the outcome of the war.
At first he was buried in a Paris cemetery and two decades later his remains were exhumed and re-buried in the Cimetière parisien de Thiais which contains the graves of 743 Serbian soldiers who fought and died during the Great War.
It was late in the 20th-century that Perović and his work received its due. Today he is listed among the important Serbian poets, travel writers, psychologists, and pedagogues after many years of neglect by the long Tito dictatorship.
==Works==
Miloš Perović's first work was a collection of poems called Pesme published in 1903 in Užice under the pseudonym of Pijetro Kosorić. His second collection was published in Belgrade under the same title in 1909. He wrote a tragedy in five acts entitled Karađorđi which appeared in 1907, a theatrical comedy Ženomrzac (Woman-hater) performed in Belgrade before the outbreak of the war in 1914. In Miloš Perović's opus we have preserved a large collection of poems, many aphorisms, two exceptional travelogues depicting the countryside of Serbia at the turn of the century, four dramatic plays, and three chronologies.
==Bibliography==
* Milutin Pešić, Književno stvaralištvo do 1918 (Užice, 2011) pages 11-13
* Mihailo Đorđević, "Anthology of Serbian Poetry" (Prosveta, 1988), page 193
* Dragoljub Zorić, Miloš Perović -- pisac srpske moderne (Užice, 1992)
Category:Serbian poets
Category:Travel writers
Category:Dramatists
Category:Pedagogues