Vladimir Jovanović (; 28 September 1833 – 3 March 1922) was a Serbian political theorist, economist, politician, philosopher, political and literary writer and activist for the unification of all Serbian lands in the Balkans.
Biography
Jovanović was educated at the universities of Vienna and Berlin in agricultural and economic sciences, and Belgrade, where he stayed at the home of his father's relatives, the brothers Dimitrije and Matija Matić. Abroad, he attended the lectures of Karl Heinrich Rau's son Ludwig at Hohenhaven Agricultural Academy and Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher in Vienna. In Belgrade, the Matić house was much more than just a place to stay. It was an educational experience for Jovanović in its own right. In Serbia, Matić was а professor of Economics at Belgrade's Grandes écoles, Minister of Finance, President of the Serbian Scientific Society and a corresponding member of the Serbian Royal Academy.
In 1863, he went to Great Britain in order to raise sympathies for the efforts of Serbia to liberate herself from the Ottoman Empire. On that occasion, he published the essay The Serbian Nation and the Eastern Question. In his travels through Europe, he met leading political revolutionaries. On the eve of the 1866 war against Austria, Mazzini told him that Italy should not rely on France in her struggle against the Habsburgs, but on the South Slavs under Vienna's yoke. Revolutions were to have started simultaneously in Venice and in the Balkan provinces of Austria; the Magyar revolution which was to follow have brought about the end of the Habsburgs.