Honorific-Prefix: | General |
Dimitrije Đurić | |
Image Upright: | 1.15 |
Birth Date: | 29 September 1838 |
Birth Place: | Belgrade, Principality of Serbia |
Death Place: | Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia |
Allegiance: | |
Serviceyears: | 1862–1893 |
Rank: | General |
Battles: | Serbo-Turkish War Serbo Bulgarian War |
Office: | Minister of War |
Term Start: | 2 February 1890 |
Term End: | 16 March 1890 |
Office2: | Minister of War |
Term Start2: | 21 March 1892 |
Term End2: | 9 August 1892 |
Dimitrije Đurić (Serbian: Димитрије Ђурић; 29 September 1838 – 19 October 1893) was a Serbian army officer, minister of defence, professor at the military academy and member of the Serbian Royal Academy of Science.[1] He also served as 8th Dean of the Academic Board of the Military Academy in Serbia and its chief on two occasions, 1887-1889 and 1891-1893.
As an artillery officer in training Dimitrije Đurić spent the period 1865-67 in Russia at Tsar Nicholas I General Staff Academy. In Russia, Durić participated in the founding of (Serbian commune), he became its president while another artillery officer, and future prime minister, Sava Grujić its vice-president and radical-socialist Svetozar Marković its secretary. The goal of the Commune, was "the establishment of fraternal relations among all Serbs in Russia", with a view to “cooperation for the general progress of the Serbian people and nation”.[2]
Dimitrije Đurić was married to Persida Matić, daughter of Minister of Education Dimitri Matić. They had three sons: Captain of artillery Milan Đurić (died at the battle of Vranje in 1911), Miloš Đurić and Velizar Đurić, and four daughters: Stanislava married to Colonel Dr Roman Sondermajer (children: Vladislaw Sondermajer, Lieutenant Colonel of aviation; Tadija Sondermajer, famous pilot of the Great War and founder of Aeroput; Stanislav Sondermajer, youngest hero of the battle of Cer and daughter Jadviga); Dragica married to Vladimir Sajnović; author Spasenija Pata Markovic married to Major Djordje Ristić and Ljubica married to Lieutenant Colonel Mihailo Naumović.