Miloš S. Milojević was a Serbia

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 and historian

Historian

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Biography

Miloš S. Milojević, son of a parish priest, was born at Crna Bara (Bogatić)

Crna Bara (Bogatic)

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 in Mačva

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, Serbia

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, on the 16th of October 1840. He graduated with a law degree from Belgrade's Grande École in 1862; studied philosophy, philology and history at the University of Moscow, from 1862 to 1865. Milojević returned to Serbia in 1866, worked for the government judicial system, and later taught at high schools in Valjevo

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, Belgrade

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 and Leskovac

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He died at Belgrade on the 24th of June 1897. He was buried in Novo Groblje

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Historiography

In 1887 his old fashioned approach to historiography was challenged and debated by Ilarion Ruvarac

Ilarion Ruvarac

Ilarion Ruvarac was historian and Orthodox priest, a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts . Ruvarac introduced the critical methods into Serbian historiography. He was archimandrite of Grgeteg monastery...

 and Ljubomir Kovačević and eventually proved erronious through critical methods, though not all of his scholarship was marred by their victory. He travelled to the Kosovo and Metohija region in 1871-1877 and left three volumes of data and maps which testify that Serbs were the majority and Albanians the minority population. His demographical-statistical structure, however, matched an independent census taken by the Austrian authorities at about the same time. Because of his ideas about Greater Serbia

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 and Serbisation, he is also known as Mad Milosh in Bulgaria

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Works

• Odlomci istorije Srba i srpskih - jugoslavenskih - zemalja u Turskoj i Austriji, Beograd, 1872.
• Pesme i običaji ukupnog naroda srpskog
• Putopisi dela prave - Stare Srbije
• Naši manastiri i kaluđerstvo
• Prva dečanska hrisovulja
• Druga dečanska hrisovulja

Manuscripts

• Putopise (in nine segments)
• Četvrta knjiga pesama i običaja
• Nemanjića
• Prizrenska tapija
• Pravila svete Petke paraskeve srpske
• Pravila svetom Simenu srpskom
• Opšti list iz Patrijaršije Pećske
• Odgovor na izmišljotine u 10 i 12 broju Budućnosti, pod imenom: Naša agitacija na istok