Teodor Filipović
Serbian lawyer
Teodor Filipović (Serbian Cyrillic: Теодор Филиповић; 1778–1807), known by the pseudonym Božidar Grujović (Божидар Грујовић), and Boža or Božo (Божа/Божо Грујовић) was a Serbian writer, jurist, philosopher and educator.
Teodor Filipović was born in the town of Ruma in Syrmia, then part of the Kingdom of Slavonia in the Habsburg monarchy, in 1778. He attended schools in Sopron, Segedin, Pozun and studied law at the University of Pest. After graduation, he was appointed professor of law history at the University of Kharkov in Imperial Russia in 1803. In 1805 he took the nom de guerre of Božidar Grujović before leaving his post as a university professor to go to Karađorđe's Serbia to fight the Turks. He was the first secretary of Serbia's Governing Council, and Karađorđe's legal counsellor, who helped establish a centralized constitutional civil government (which lasted until 1813). Other educators, Mihajlo Grujović (brother of Teodor Filipović) and Ivan Jugović, came to take the post of secretaries of Karađorđe's Governing State Council after Filipović died in 1807.
After the First Serbian Uprising in 1804, this lawyer from Ruma (then ruled by Austrian Empire), who received his doctor of law degree from the University of Budapest and for a while taught History of Law with his fellow Serbs, law professor Gligorije Trlajić and physicist Atanasije Stojković at the new Imperial Kharkov University (founded by Vasily Karazin and established in 1804 by Emperor Alexander I of Russia), joined his compatriots in Serbia in their fight for independence. The shock of that seizure had salutary results in Serbia, for it called into existence a widespread spirit of patriotism, especially among the youth. Education was fostered, and an enlightened parliament began to prepare a new constitution that should rid the obstructive Turkish ways.
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