Famous Monuments 5

MONUMENT TO PETAR II PETROVIĆ NJEGOŠ
Author: SRETEN STOJANOVIĆ

Between the Kapetan Miša's building and the Faculty of Philosophy, bronze 260 cm, total height 540 cm. Erected in 1994.

PETAR II PETROVIĆ NJEGOŠ
(Njeguši, 1813 - Cetinje, 1851), vladika (bishop) and ruler of Montenegro

One of our greatest thinkers and poets. As a young ruler, he has regulated political circumstances in the country and around it: he has organized the courts, managed to increase Russian aid, established the Senat, built the first elementary school and founded a printing-house in 1834. Having been raised on folk songs and poems, he himself has also written poems about struggle against the Turks but his mature poetic accomplishments are three epic poems: "Gorski vijenac", "Lažni car Šćepan Mali" i "Luča mikrokozma". Basically reflexive-lyrical poet, he has remained that even in these works which have epical and dramatic form.

MONUMENT TO NIKOLA TESLA
Author: FRANO KRŠINIĆ

In Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra, in front of the building of the Faculty of Technology, bronze 220 cm, total height 335 cm. Erected in 1963.

NIKOLA TESLA
(Smiljan near Gospić, 1856 - New York, USA, 1943) inventor of alternating current

One of the most creative geniuses in electrical engineering. He finished secondary school in Gospić and Karlovac and technical studies at Graz and Prague. After working for Thomas Edison's company, he founded his own laboratory in New York. He was author of almost 1.000 patents in the field of electrical engineering. He discovered the three-phase system for transmitting electrical current which brought about a revolution in the economy of production and electrical power transmission. He has invented an induction motor, generator and transformer for high frequency current (Tesla coils).

He has also made a series of discoveries in radio technology by which he might be considered as one of the pioneers of radio. He has published the works in the field of physics, too. On the 100th anniversary of his birth, the International Electrical Engineering Commission decided to name the unit of magnetic flux density after Tesla. By this decision he was officially ranked among the most important scientists in the development of electrical science. During World War II he has actively used his high reputation to support and encourage the hard struggle of his people in the homeland.

MONUMENT TO ĐURA JAKŠIĆ
Author: JOVAN SOLDATOVIĆ

In front of the house of Đura Jakšić in Skadarlija, bronze 150 cm. Erected in 1990.

ĐURA JAKŠIĆ
(Srpska Crnja, 1832 - Belgrade, 1878), writer and painter

He has studied fine arts in Vienna and Munich. He has been a teacher and professor in various towns in Serbia. He belongs to the most expressive representatives of Serbian romanticism. Passionate, of impetuous imagination, flamy emotions, rebellious and a freedom-lover, he has written, with romanticist pathos, songs about freedom, against tyranny, and verses of lyric confession full of deep pain (nevertheless, he also had nothing against dedicating a collection of poems to Knez Milan). He has written some forty short stories, some of them designes as novels. He has written three dramas: "Stanoje Glavaš", "Seoba Srba", and "Jelisaveta". He was one of the most talented Serbian painters of the XIX century and most prominent representative of romanticism in Serbian painting. He has been buried as one of the most respected and loved artists of Belgrade.

SPOMENIK DIMITRIJU TUCOVIĆU
Author: STEVAN BODNAROV

At Trg Slavija, bronze 125 cm. The remains of Dimitrije Tucović were buried here in 1947.

DIMITRIJE TUCOVIĆ
(Gostilje, Zlatibor district, 1881 - Vrače Brdo near Lazarevac, 1914), leader of social-democratic movement in Serbia

He has studied law in Belgrade. He has been main editor of his party's theoretical magazine "Borba", and member of parliament. He has written much, and temperamentally, participated in international meetings of socialists, translated from German. He died in World War I in battle on Kolubara, in 1914, as an officer of the Serbian Army.