Jovan Gavrilović

Jovan Gavrilović (3 November 1796 in Vukovar, Habsburg monarchy – 29 July 1877 in Belgrade, Principality of Serbia) was a Serbian historian, politician, statesman, and public figure. He was the first president of the Serbian Learned Society, the forerunner of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences. Gavrilović was also the benefactor of the teachers' association. During the fifty years of his life in Serbia's capital, he was a government official, diplomat, prince's deputy, a people's benefactor and more. A monument erected in his honor adorns Belgrade's Kalemegdan park.