Adam Pribićević

Adam Pribićević
Pribićević in the 1920s
Born	(1880-12-24)24 December 1880 Kostajnica, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary
Died	7 February 1957(1957-02-07) (aged 76) Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Resting place	Batajnica Cemetery, Batajnica
Family	Milan, Valerijan and Svetozar (brothers)

Adam Pribićević (Serbian Cyrillic: Адам Прибићевић; Kostajnica, 7 February 1957) was a Croatian Serb publisher, writer, and politician.

Biography

Pribićević was born in Kostajnica, to a well-known family of Serbs of Croatia.^[1] After graduating from gymnasium (high school) in Sremski Karlovci, he studied law at Zagreb. He began his political activities by joining the Srpska Samostalna Stranka (Independent Serbian Party). He published articles in the periodicals Srbobran and Srpsko kolo. A supporter of the social philosophy of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Adam emphasized the role of peasants in the social development of Serbia. Along with a group of Serbian politicians from Croatia, Adam was arrested during a mounting conflict between the Croatian-Serbian Coalition and the Austro-Hungarian authorities.^[2] It became apparent that the evidence in the earlier trial had been fabricated with the foreknowledge of the Austro-Hungarian authorities.^[2]

After his release, Adam joined the editorial staff of Srpsko kolo. In 1913 on a visit to Belgrade Adam forewarned Nikola Pašić about a compromise between the Croatian-Serbian Coalition in Habsburg Croatia and the Austrian government. He also worked as an editor of the periodical Narod. In 1924 he settled in Kosovo, where he was active in the Independent Democratic Party, founded by his brother Svetozar Pribičević. He also edited the periodical Reč. After the death of his brother Svetozar, Adam was elected to parliament in 1936. In 1938 he became chairman of the Samostalna Demokratska Stranka (Independent Democratic Party).^[3]

Between the two world wars, he held many important posts in Yugoslavia. He was a jurist, journalist, and political activist who, with his brother Milan, became "the voice of return to the virtues of rural life."

His books were banned by the Yugoslav communist government in 1947.^[4]

He committed suicide on 7 February 1957 in Windsor, Ontario.

From 2008, the new 16th street in Busije, a part of Belgrade, carries his name.^[5]

Personal life

He had three brothers: Milan, Svetozar and Valerian.^[6]

Works

Seljak, 1936
Naseljavanja Srba po Hrvatskoj i Dalmaciji, 1954
Od gospodina do seljaka
Selo kao moralni činilac u životu naroda, 1954
The Problem of Austro-Hungaria, Voice of Canadian Serbs, 1949
The Memorandum on Crimes of Genocide Committed against the Serbian People by the Government of the 'Independent State of Croatia' during World War II. Addressed to the Fifth General Assembly of the United Nations, 1950, by Adam Pribićević, Dr. Vladimir Belajčić, and Dr. Branko Miljuš.

References

^ Adam Pribićević. "Naseljavanje Srba po Hrvatskoj i Dalmaciji" (PDF) (in Serbian). Retrieved 15 July 2012. Adam Pribićević Srbin iz Hrvatske – preface by Čedomir Višnjić (p. 5)
^ ^a ^b Robert A. Kann (1980). A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1526–1918. University of California Press. p. 448. ISBN 9780520042063.
^ Roszkowski, Wojciech; Kofman, Jan (8 July 2016). Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. ISBN 9781317475934.
^ Randelić, Zdenko (2006). Hrvatska u Jugoslaviji 1945. – 1991: od zajedništva do razlaza. Zagreb: Školska knjiga. pp. 156–157. ISBN 953-0-60816-0. 978-953-0-60816-0.
^ ("Službeni list" 02/2008)
^ name="Cornwall"

Sources

Ćirković, Sima (2004). The Serbs. Malden: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 9781405142915.
Miller, Nicholas J. (1997). Between Nation and State: Serbian Politics in Croatia Before the First World War. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 9780822977223.
Chalou, George C. (December 1995). The Secret War: The Office of Strategic Services in World War II. DIANE Publishing. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-7881-2598-0.