Janko Đurđević

Janko Đurđević (Serbian Cyrillic: Јанко Ђурђевић; c. 1770 – 1828) was a representative of the Smederevo nahiyah in the cabinets of Matija Nenadović, Mladen Milovanović, and Jakov Nenadović. He was a member of the Great Federal Court (Supreme Court)^[which?] from 1811.

Biography

Janko Đurđević was born around 1770 in Konjska Reka, near Bajina Bašta, Serbia, at a time when, during Karađorđe's Serbia, it was part of the Danube principality^{[clarification needed]} of the Smederevo nahija. He was a legal advisor during the time of Karađorđe. In 1813, he fled to Austria and then emigrated to Imperial Russia where he died in 1828.^[1]

His contemporaries, Vuk Karadžić,^[2] Matija Nenadović,^[1] and Lazar Arsenijević^[3] mention him in their respective memoirs.

His son Paun Janković (1808-1865)^[4] was acting Prime Minister of Serbia in 1840.

Sources

• Milan Đ. Milićević, Pomenik znamenitih ljudi u srpskog narodu novijega doba, Vol 1 (Belgrade, 1888)^[5]
• Milan Đ. Milićević,Kneževina Srbija (Belgrade, 1878)
• Lazar Arsenijević Batalaka, Istorija srpskog ustanka (Belgrade, 1898)
• Konstantin N. Nenadović, Život i dela velikog Đorđa Petrovića Kara Đorđa Vrhovnog Vožda... (Vienna, 1884)
• Morison, W. A. (2012) [1942]. The Revolt of the Serbs Against the Turks: (1804-1813). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-67606-0.
• Petrovich, Michael Boro (1976). A history of modern Serbia, 1804-1918. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 9780151409501.
• Ranke, Leopold von (1847). History of Servia, and the Servian Revolution: From Original Mss. and Documents. J. Murray.