Jovan Marinović
Serbian politician
Jovan Marinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Мариновић; 1821 – August 30, 1893) was a Serbian politician and diplomat. He introduced several enlightened reforms in Serbian political system. As a close collaborator of Minister Ilija Garašanin, Marinović became the leader of the Serbian Conservatives, eventually becoming Prime Minister of the Principality of Serbia. Educated in Paris, Marinović believed in European culture and reforms as a way of enlightening the Serbian peasant society. Being a member of one of the first generatiosn of Serbian Western-educated intellectuals, Marinović occupied several posts in the state administration. He was highly regarded as a diplomat.
Early life
Born to a Serbian family in Sarajevo at the time part of the Bosnia Eyalet in the Ottoman Empire, Marinović moved to neighboring Principality of Serbia as a child.
He finished secondary school in Kragujevac in 1837 and obtained a job in the Chancery of the Prince (Knjaževa kancelarija) under Prince Miloš Obrenović I. Marinović studied in Paris from 1841 until 1842, returning to Serbia to work as a secretary in the State Council. In 1843, he returned to the Prince's chancery in the head capacity, this time under Prince Aleksandar Karađorđević as the Karađorđevićs in the meantime took the power in Serbia from the Obrenovićs.
Marinović went back to Paris in 1847, formally in order to finish his studies.
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