Milan Grol

Milan Grol

Milan Grol (Belgrade, 31 August 1876 – Belgrade, 3 December 1952) was a Serbian literary critic and politician.

Milan Grol

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Biography

Milan Grol studied in Belgrade and in Paris. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Philology and Literature at the University of Belgrade in 1899. He studied literature and theatre for two years in Paris. Grol was an assistant dramaturgist in 1902 and dramaturgist, from 1903 to 1906, of the National Theatre in Belgrade. He was appointed editor of the Dnevni list (Daily Newspaper), from 1905-1909. He also taught at a high school (gymnasium) in Belgrade, from 1906 to 1909. He was appointed editor of Odjek (Echo), from 1912-1914 and 1936-1941. He was appointed head of the National Theatre in Belgrade, from 1909 to 1914, and again in 1918 until 1924. In 1922, Grol founded Nedeljni glasnik (Sunday Herald). During the Great War he headed the Serbian Press Bureau in Geneva, from 1915 until 1918. In 1919 he joined the Democratic Party. He was the Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from August 1924 and Envoy of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes to Turkey until December 1924. In 1925 he was selected to the National Assembly for the first time. He was chosen Deputy of the National Assembly, from 1925-1929, and organizer and director of the Kolarac People's University, from 1929 until 1941. In 1940, after the death of Ljubomir Davidović, he became the head of the Democratic Party.

He held various posts in the Yugoslav government-in-exile during World War II in London: Minister for Social Policy and National Health, from 27 March to January 1942; Minister of Transport, from 10 January 1942 to 26 June 1943; Minister of Foreign Affairs, from 26 June to 10 August 1943; Vice-president, from 7 march to August 1945. He returned to Belgrade after the war's end, founded a magazine called Demokracija, but withdrew from public life after the introduction of communist rule. He testified at the trial of Draža Mihailović.[1]

Published a large number of works in the fields of literature, dramaturgy and politics. Books: Theatre Reviews (1931); From Pre-War Serbia (1939); From the Theatre of Pre-War Serbia (1952); London Diary 1941-1945 (1990).

Works

  • Pozorišne kritike, Belgrade, 1931.
  • Iz predratne Srbije, Belgrade, 1939.
  • Iz pozorišta predratne Srbije, Belgrade, 1952.

Literature

  • Enciklopedija Jugoslavije, part 4, 1986.

References

  1. ^ Captives Sold, Tribunal Told, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Jun 25, 1946
Political offices
Preceded by
Yugoslavian Minister of Education
1928–1929
Succeeded by
Božidar Purić
Preceded by
Slobodan Jovanović
Yugoslavian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1943
Succeeded by
Božidar Maksimović

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