Jaša Tomić

Jaša Tomic (Serbian Cyrillic: Јаша Томић ) ( born October 23, 1856 in Vršac, † October 22, 1922 in Novi Sad ) was a Serbian politician, publicist, journalist and writer.

Life

Jaša Tomic was born in the family of a Serbian Orthodox Christian. Since 1849, his birthplace Vršac belonged to the Voivodeship of Serbia and Banat of Timişoara. The parents were merchants who were faring well here. Tomic was able to visit in Vršac further education schools in Timişoara and Kecskemét after elementary school. On Herzegovina Uprising in 1876 he took part as a volunteer. After its suppression he went to Vienna and Prague, and studied medicine, but then moved to the Faculty of Philosophy and Philology. Following Tomic went to the controlled even by the Habsburg monarchy part of the country Vojvodina and took over responsibilities in politics. With the goals of socialism and a free Serbia, he had become acquainted, and was a moderate supporter of these ideas.

Tomic issued the magazines Srpsko kolo and Zastava and was the founder of the People's freethinkers Party ( Narodna slobodoumna stranka ). In 1889, he stabbed in Novi Sad Misa Dimitrijevic, a man who had hurt his wife's honor more than once in his Branik magazine. For this he was sentenced to seven years in prison. In his prison time Tomic had not abandoned the policy objectives in relation to the Serbian national liberation. He had dealt extensively with political as well as economic issues. The party he founded was called since 1891, Radical Party ( Radikalna stranka ), in which he was active again after his release. In 1918, Tomic was elected President of the Serb National Council in Novi Sad. Under his leadership, the Grand National Assembly on November 25, 1918 approved the elimination of the areas Banat, Bačka and Baranja from the Kingdom of Hungary and their union with the Kingdom of Serbia. He had to restrict due to increasing health problems his personal activities. He had already begun in time to write programmatic ideas and publish them. After his early death, he was buried in the cemetery Uspensko groblje in Novi Sad.

Publications (selection)

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