STUDENTSKI SVETOSAVSKI TEMATI ŽIVKA JOVANOVIĆA - PRILOG BIOGRAFIJI
ŽIVKO JOVANOVIĆ’S STUDENT ST. SAVA ESSAYS - SUPPLEMENT FOR A BIOGRAPHY

Summary/Abstract: Student essays submitted for the St. Sava Award were serious scientific works -dissertations in small. The period of a year was allowed for their writing, they were signed in code and were severely graded. Only about ten students from the entire Belgrade University could hope to win this award each year. The money for the awards was provided by the king. Živko Jovanović won his first St. Sava award in 1910/11, as a second-year student of the Belgrade Faculty of Law, for his essay »Justifiable Self-defense and the State of Contingency in Criminal Law«. A part of this work was published in the distinguished magazine »Archive of Legal and Social Sciences«. During the following academic year, 1911/12, Živko won three St. Sava awards at once, a success unequaled before or after his time. This achievement brought him to the attention of Belgrade and Serbian intellectuals. The first award was for his work in the sphere of administrative law, entitled »The Organization of Town Communities«. A chapter from this work (»The Legal Nature of Community Authority«) was published in the well-known magazine »Delo«. He won the second award at the Department of the Serbian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy. A chapter of this essay (»Tolstoy's Social Philosophy and Social Idealism«) was also published in the »Delo«. The title of his third awarded essay is unknown. The published works show that Živko Jovanović was an intelligent and erudite person, with a highly polished style in writing.

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