Anastas Jovanović ( sr-cyrl, Анастас Јовановић, bg, Анастас Йованович 1817 – 1 November 1899) was a
Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungar ...
n photographer and author.
Biography
Jovanović, was of
Bulgarian origin and during his life he always felt himself a Bulgarian and at the same time a Serb. He was born in
Vratsa
Vratsa ( bg, Враца ) is the largest city in northwestern Bulgaria and the administrative and economic centre of the municipality of Vratsa and Vratsa district. It is located about 112 km north of Sofia, 40 km southeast of Montana.
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, an important administrative and garrison city under
Ottoman rule
Ottoman is the Turkish spelling of the Arabic masculine given name Uthman ( ar, عُثْمان, ‘uthmān). It may refer to:
Governments and dynasties
* Ottoman Caliphate, an Islamic caliphate from 1517 to 1924
* Ottoman Empire, in existence fro ...
in 1817. When Anastas was 9 years old, his father sent him to continue his education in Belgrade, where his uncle worked at the Prince Obrenović sewing studio. In 1830, after the death of Anastas' father, his family moved to Belgrade. But only after one year his uncle who was their support died too.
Anastas' son
Konstantin Jovanović (1849–1923) was a prominent architect. Anastas's daughter
Katarina Jovanović was a prominent Serbian to German translator.
He was awarded the
Order of Prince Danilo I
The Order of Prince Danilo I ( cnr, Орден Књаза Данила I, translit=Orden Knjaza Danila I) was an order of the Principality and later Kingdom, of Montenegro. It is currently a dynastic order granted by the head of the House of Pet ...
.
Gallery
Image:Michael Obrenovic - foto van Anastas Jovanovic (1817-1899).jpg, Prince Michael by Anastas c. 1856.
Image:Corpse of late princess Kleopatra.jpg, Corpse of late princess Kleopatra
Image:Dositej Obradovic.jpg, Portrait of Dositej Obradović
Dositej Obradović ( sr-Cyrl, Доситеј Обрадовић; 17 February 1739 – 7 April 1811) was a Serbian writer, biographer, diarist, philosopher, pedagogue, educational reformer, linguist, polyglot and the first minister of education ...
Image:Петар II Петровић Његош , песник и владика.jpg, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš
Petar II Petrović-Njegoš ( sr-cyrl, Петар II Петровић-Његош, ; – ), commonly referred to simply as Njegoš (), was a Prince-Bishop (''vladika'') of Montenegro, poet and philosopher whose works are widely considered ...
by Anastas c. 1851 ( talbotype).
Image:Victory of King Milutin over the Tatars, Anastas Jovanović (1853).jpg, Victory of king Stefan Milutin over the Tatars
Image:Stefan Supljikac color.jpg, Portrait of voivode Stevan Šupljikac
Stevan Šupljikac ( sr-cyr, Стеван Шупљикац; 1786 – 15 December 1848), known simply as Vojvoda Šupljikac was a Serbian ''voivode'' and the first voivode of the Serbian Vojvodina.
Life
He was born in Petrinja, in 1786. He ...
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Serbian photographers
19th-century Serbian artists
1817 births
1899 deaths
People from Vratsa
Bulgarian emigrants to Serbia
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni