{{Short description|Professor and writer}} {{more citations needed|date=April 2017}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Miloš Trivunac | image = | order = Minister of Education of the Government of National Salvation | vice_president = | term_start = 29 August 1941 | term_end = 7 October 1941 | predecessor = None | successor = Velibor Jonić | birth_date = 28 July 1876 | birth_place = Belgrade, Principality of Serbia | death_date = 27 November 1944 (aged 68) | death_place = Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | party = | spouse = | relations = | children = | allegiance = | alma_mater = University of Belgrade | occupation = | profession = Writer, Professor, Politician | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Miloš Trivunac''' (28 July 1876 – 27 November 1944) was a prominent Serbian professor and writer, who, influenced by German literature, published many works in Serbian and German.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VOkVAQAAMAAJ&q=milos+trivunac |title = Serbian Studies|year = 2000}}</ref> He was also critical of it in his works.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VBHvAAAAMAAJ&q=milos+trivunac |title = Slavia|last1 = Vucinich|first1 = Voislav|year = 1941}}</ref>{{clarify|date=November 2020}}
==Biography== Trivunac was born in Aleksinac in 1876, and educated in Niš, Belgrade, Munich, and Leipzig. During the end of the Great War, Trivunac was the president of the Serbian National Defense League of America, founded by Michael Pupin and headquartered at 441 West 22nd Street in New York City.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/jugoslavsofcleve00ledb | quote=milos trivunac. |title = The Jugoslavs of Cleveland: With a Brief Sketch of Their Historical and Political Backgrounds| publisher=Under the direction of the Cleveland Americanization committee, Mayor's advisory war committee |last1 = Eleanor Edwards Ledbetter|first1 = Mrs|year = 1918}}</ref> Upon his return to Serbia, he founded the Department of German Language and Literature at the University of Belgrade and was its first professor there.<ref>{{Cite book|title= Srđ|year=1902|url= http://ubsm.bg.ac.rs/view.php?q=1282&e=f&p=0788&z=3&x=0&w=1920&h=908&x=e|location= Dubrovnik }}</ref> Also, he was one of the founders of the Serbian PEN center in 1926.
In 1941 when Yugoslavia was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany, Milan Nedić appointed him Minister of Education in the Government of National Salvation in Serbia, but he was removed from that position already on 7 October 1941.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gkiEDAAAQBAJ&dq=Milo%C5%A1+Trivunac%2C&pg=PA22 |title = Serbia and the Serbs in World War Two|isbn = 9780230347816|last1 = Ramet|first1 = Sabrina P.|date = 2011-10-31| publisher=Springer }}</ref>
In 1944 he was arrested and executed by Yugoslav Partisans in Belgrade together with Momčilo Janković, Milan Horvatski, Srbislav Dokić, Milan Milovanović, Ranisav Avramović and Jovan Mijušković and 105 other alleged Serbian collaborators. {{citation needed|date=August 2017}}
==Selected works== *''Aus dem Leben G. Bude's'', 1902 *''Guillaume Budes De l‘institution du Prince. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Renaissancebewegung in Frankreich'', 1903 *''Žena u Geteovoj poeziji'', 1908 *''Geteov Faust'', 1921 *''Gete'', 1931 *''Geteova svetska književnost'', 1933 *''Nemacki uticaj na naš јеzik'', 1937 *''Geteov Klaviho'', 1938
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