Stevan K. Pavlowitch
Born(1933-09-07)7 September 1933
Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Died24 January 2022(2022-01-24) (aged 88)
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Professor, writer, journalist
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Paris
ThesisAnglo-Russian Rivalry in Serbia, 1837—1839 (1961[1])
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
InstitutionsUniversity of Southampton

Stevan Kosta Pavlowitch (Serbian: Stevan K. Pavlović, Стеван К. Павловић; 7 September 1933 – 24 January 2022) was a Yugoslav and British historian, emeritus professor of Balkan history at the University of Southampton, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[2]

Biography

Stevan Kosta Pavlowitch was born in Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia on 7 September 1933,[3][4] into a well-known Serbian family of diplomats from the Kingdom of Serbia and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.[2] His father Kosta St. Pavlović was a diplomat, who was personal secretary of Vojislav Marinković, the Yugoslav Foreign Minister;[5] his grandfather, also named Stevan K. Pavlović, was an influential lawyer, interpreter and diplomat who had served with the Ministry of Foreign affairs, was a member of the Yugoslav delegation at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919–1920, and had received the Legion of Honour.[1] His great-grandfather Kosta Pavlović was the first mayor of Niš and a member of the Liberal Party.[6]

Pavlowitch began his schooling in Bucharest, where his father was stationed as a diplomat.[7] Following the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941, the family followed the Yugoslav royal government to the United Kingdom[8] where his father was appointed chief of the Cabinet of the Prime Ministers Dušan Simović, Slobodan Jovanović[a] and Miloš Trifunović then in 1943 First Secretary of the Yugoslav Embassy.[7] After the war Pavlowitch's father completed postgraduate magisterial studies at the University of Cambridge where he became in 1961, permanent member of the Faculty for Contemporary and Medieval Languages and permanent member of the Regent House of the University of Cambridge,[6][8]

Pavlowitch studied history in Paris at the Sorbonne University, in Lille and in London both at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies and King's College.[7] From 1958 to 1965, Pavlowitch worked as a journalist and was stationed in Belgium and Italy.[11] In 1965, he joined the staff of the University of Southampton and in 1997 became the emeritus professor of Balkan history, and was a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[11] He was the emeritus professor of Balkan history at the University of Southampton and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[12] With his research on the history of Yugoslavia, rejection of essentialist, Balkanist or Orientalist as well as predetermined or simplistic nationalists interpretations of history, he became one of the most prominent and respected scholars in the field.[1]

Pavlowitch was a contributor for the 1992 Radio Television of Serbia documentary series entitled Yugoslavia in War 1941–1945. He died on 24 January 2022, at the age of 88.[13]

Bibliography

Notes

  1. ^ Jovanović was cousins with Pavlowitch's father.[9] Jovanović and Pavlowitch's family remained friends in exile. When Jovanović died in December 1958, he was buried on the Pavlowitch family's burial plot in London.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c Dragović-Soso, Jasna (2022). "In Memoriam: Stevan K. Pavlović (1933. — 2022.)". Tragovi: Journal for Serbian and Croatian Topics (in Croatian). 5 (1). Serb National Council: 223–226.
  2. ^ a b Obituaries, Telegraph (7 March 2022). "Professor Stevan Pavlowitch, leading historian of the Balkans who eschewed partisan narratives – obituary". The Telegraph. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
  3. ^ Slobodan Marković (7 February 2002). "Balkan u novoj prizmi" (in Serbian). Vreme. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  4. ^ Evory, Ann (November 1978). Contemporary Authors. Gale / Cengage Learning. p. 627. ISBN 9780810300385. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  5. ^ Bjelajac, Mile (22 February 2022). "Professor Stevan Pavlowitch (1933-1922)" (PDF). Tokovi Istorije. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
  6. ^ a b "Porodica Pavlović čuvar gradskog duha". Glas javnosti (in Serbian). 7 March 2005. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  7. ^ a b c "Balkan odozgo". Glas javnosti (in Serbian). 29 September 2001. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  8. ^ a b Nikolic, Jelena (14 May 1941). "Kosta St. Pavlović, The London Diary 1945–1946Историјски архив Београда". {}. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
  9. ^ "Dva avionska leta". Politika Online (in Serbian). 8 September 2023. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
  10. ^ "Posmrtni ostaci Slobodana Jovanovića stižu u Srbiju". NOVOSTI (in Serbian). 11 October 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
  11. ^ a b "The Writers Directory". Gale eBooks. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
  12. ^ "Professor Stevan K. Pavlowitch". University of London. Archived from the original on 13 March 2013.
  13. ^ "Srbija i Velika Britanija: Ko je bio istoričar Stevan K. Pavlović - kosmopolita i džentlmen srpskog porekla". BBC News na srpskom (in Serbian). 25 February 2022. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
Categories