Draft:Jeremija Stanojevic

Jeremija Stanojević (Serbian: Јеремија Станојевић; Zeoke, Karađorđe's Serbia, 1813 – Zemun, 27 March 1872) was a Serbian politician. He was a member of the State Council, Minister of Justice and Education (1857–1858), and President of the Supreme Court of the Principality of Serbia.

Member of the Supreme Court

Jeremija Stanojević was born in 1813 in Zeoke.1) He was educated by a private teacher from Vojvodina.2) He joined the army, where he was promoted to second lieutenant in 1836, and to captain of the cavalry guard in 1837.3) Stanojević was appointed head of the Turija district in 1839, and then temporary head of the Jagodina district.4) He was promoted to the rank of major in 1841.5) He was president of the Krajina district court in 1842, and president of the Kragujevac district court in 1843.6) He was married to Marija Nenadović, daughter of Priest Matija Nenadović.7) Prince Aleksandar Karađorđević was married to the daughter of Jevrem Nenadović. In 1846, Jeremija Stanojević was appointed President of the Court of Appeals.8) In the same year, he became a member of the Supreme Court, and in 1849, he was appointed President of the Supreme Court of the Principality of Serbia.9) After that, in 1852, he became a member of the powerful State Council.10)11)

Advisor and Minister

In the State Council, he stood out for his courageous opposition to Prince Alexander Karađorđević.12) When the prince built a palace on state land, he demanded that the prince be sued for seizing state land.13) He was quite aggressive and prone to arguments with other advisors.14) Although he was against the prince, he was appointed Minister of Justice and Minister of Education|Education]] on June 19/July 1, 1857, and remained in that position until March 31/12. April 1858.15) As Minister of Education, he was automatically the president of the Serbian Literary Society, but he was not a member of the Society.16) When he became Minister of Education, he suddenly changed his policy, and began to defend the prince with great fervor, and stopped defending the rights of the State Council.17) As Minister of Justice, he also exerted pressure on the Supreme Court, so that in one case a verdict was obtained that suited the prince.18) During the Tenka conspiracy at the end of 1857, the prince removed ten advisors from the council and appointed loyal new advisors to himself. Jeremija was one of the few who retained his place in the Council.19) After Etem Pasha's mission, the prince was forced to return the ousted advisors to the Council in 1858. After Etem Pasha's mission, Jeremija Stanojević, together with Antonije Majstorović and Ranko Matejić, led the prince's group in the fight against the council group, led by Ilija Garašanin.20)

Imprisonments for alleged conspiracies

After Prince Miloš's return in January 1859, he retired.21) Together with four advisors and several other people, he was imprisoned on 11 July 1859.22) The entire group was suspected of intending to assassinate Prince Miloš Obrenović or Mihailo Obrenović.23) Prince Miloš ordered the imprisonment of the alleged conspirators after a not-so-serious delivery.24) Jeremija was held in chains under military guard at Topčider, and the investigation of them lasted two months, before they were finally released.25)

However, Prince Miloš, even after the investigation, believed that the Nenadovićs and Stanojevićs intended to kill him, so he began to threaten the judges, who released the accused.26) Since they no longer felt safe, Jeremija Stanojević, Jakov Stanojević, Aleksandar Nenadović, and Antonije Majstorović fled on 3/15. September 1859, under the protection of the Turks on Kalemegdan.27) After that, they fled down the Danube to Constantinople, where they stayed until an amnesty was declared after the death of Prince Miloš.28) Jeremija retired in May 1861. After the murder of Prince Mihailo in 1868, he was accused of participating in a conspiracy together with other relatives of Princess Persida Karađorđević.29) He was arrested again, together with his son Dragiš Stanojević.30) When he was released from prison, he was exiled from Serbia.31) From Zemun, he sought permission to return to the Principality of Serbia, though in vain.32)

He died on 27 March 1872 in Zemun.33)

Literature

• Ministers of Education of Serbia 1811-1918, Pedagogical Museum, Belgrade, 2000.
• Velibor Berko Savić, Nenadovići, Valjevo, 2004.
• S. Jovanović, Ustavobranitelji i njihova govora, Izdavačko i knjižarsko preduzeće Geca Kon, Belgrade, 1933.
• S. Jovanović, The Second Government of Miloš and Mihaila, Geca Kon Publishing and Publishing Company, Belgrade, 1933.
• Svetlana Mirčov, Dragiša Stanojević as Librarian of the National Library in Belgrade, NBS Gazette, No. 1/2004
• Jeremija Stanojević

See also

• Veljko Stanojević

1) , 2) , 3) , 4) , 5) , 6) , 8) , 9) , 11) , 15) , 16) , 21) Ministers of Education, 2000, p. 52 7) Svetlana Mirčov, 2004, p. 101 10) , 28) Velibor Savić, 2004, p. 193 12) , 13) , 14) , 17) , 18) Ustavobraniteljeri, 1933, p. 248 19) Ustavobranitelji, 1933, p. 284 20) Ustavobranitelji, 1933, p. 345-346 22) The Second Government of Miloš and Mihailo, 1933, p. 93-94 23) , 24) , 26) The Second Government of Miloš and Mihailo, 1933, p. 94 25) , 27) The Second Government of Miloš and Mihailo, 1933, p. 95 29) , 30) The Second Government of Miloš and Mihailo, 1933, p. 444 31) Velibor Savić, 2004, p. 194 32) , 33) Velibor Savić, 2004, p. 196

References

• From Serbian Encyclopedia: http://srpskaenciklopedija.org/doku.php?id=%D1%98%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0_%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%98%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%9B