The Pattern of Serbian Intellectual Evolution, 1830-1880
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2106352 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Traian Stoianovich (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1959 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 242-272 |
| Publication date | 1959-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500000256 |
| OpenAlex | W2118315649 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 5 |
The time seemed propitious for the establishment of a government of law in Serbia at the beginning of 1830. Between the end of 1828 and the autumn of 1830 Prince Miloš of Serbia created a so-called 'legislative commission' to translate the Code Napoléon into Serbian and codify the laws and customs of the country. In January 1830 he solemnly advised a great national assembly that he had obtained an imperial edict from the Sultan ending all direct obligations of Serbian peasants to their former Turkish lords, guaranteeing Ottoman recognition of Serbian autonomy in most matters of internal administration, and offering Serbia the prospect of territorial aggrandizement, as well as the express right to institute schools, courts, and a governmental administration of her own. Shortly thereafter the Serbian envoys to St. Petersburg returned to Serbia and made it known that the Tsar-Protector had supposedly expressed the view that every state should have an 'organic charter'. The able and enlightened Count Paul Kiselev, Russian Governor of the Rumanian principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, had moreover just endowed these provinces with 'Organic Statutes
Administration (probate law) · Ancient history · Charter · Commission · Legislature · Montenegro · Political science · Serbian · State (computer science) · Statute · Turkish · Balkan and Eastern European Studies · Cultural, Linguistic, Economic Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 1963 - 2016 (54) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |