Milan Pribićević

Milan Pribićević
Born1876
Brod na Savi, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary
(now Slavonski Brod, Croatia)
Died8 March 1937(1937-03-08) (aged 60–61)
Montreux, Switzerland
Allegiance Kingdom of Serbia
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
RankColonel
AwardsOrder of Karađorđe's Star
Spouse(s)Ruža Pribićević

Milan Pribićević (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Прибићевић) was a Yugoslav political activist who nominally led ORJUNA.[1][2][3] He had three brothers, Svetozar Pribićević, Adam Pribićević and Valerijan Pribičević,[3] and nephew Stoyan Pribichevich, all of them were writers and politically involved in everyday affairs. Pribićević was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army who defected to Serbia in 1904.[3][4]In 1917, while on a recruiting mission for the Salonika Front in neutral United States, he modelled for Malvina Hoffman's "Modern Crusader"[5]

Milan Pribićević died in 1937.[3]

References

  1. ^ Ivo Banac. The national question in Yugoslavia: origins, history, politics. Paperback edition. Ithaca, New York, USA: Cornell University Press, 1988. Pp. 187.
  2. ^ Cyprian Blamires. World fascism: a historical encyclopedia, Volume 1. Santa Barbara, California, USA: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2006. Pp. 745.
  3. ^ a b c d Cornwall, Mark (2020). Sarajevo 1914: Sparking the First World War. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 162. ISBN 9781350093188.
  4. ^ Dimmick, Lauretta; Hassler, Donna J. (1999). American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A catalogue of works by artists born between 1865 and 1885 (Illustrated ed.). Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 738. ISBN 9780870999239.
  5. ^ "Modern Crusader". Smithsonian American Art Museum. 2022-08-26.