Dušan A. Popović
Serbian politician
Dušan Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Поповић; 6 January 1885 – 8 November 1918) was a Serbian journalist, publicist and politician. He was secretary of the Serbian Social Democratic Party (SSDP).
In England, he was often styled Doushan Popovitch.
Early life
Dušan A. Popović was born on 6 January 1885 [O.S. 25 December 1884] in the village of Volujak (now part of Dragovo) in the Levač region. His father Aleksa Popović, originally from Vojvodina, was orphaned during the Hungarian Revolution and was adopted as a three-year-old by the Avakumović family in Belgrade in 1848. He went on to become a teacher, and taught in several places, stationed in Volujak at the time of Dušan's birth. Dušan was the seventh child of Aleksa and Jevica (Mileva) Popović.
Dušan spent his childhood in Volujak, where he attended elementary school from 1891 to 1895. Popović attended the first two grades of lower gymnasium in Kragujevac, and the third and fourth in a private school in Jagodina. He passed his finals in Kragujevac.
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