Andra Nikolić

Andra Nikolić (Belgrade, Principality of Serbia, 5 October 1853 — Paris, France, 28 September 1918) was a Serbian politician, jurist, writer, literary historian and academic.

[1] After entering the civil service, he formed an alliance with Stojan Protić and Lazar Paču[2] and the trio became one of the closest political associates and personal colleagues in the Serbian government.

Andra Nikolić served in several governments (Sava Grujić, Nikola Pašić (13 May 1890 - 21 August 1892), Lazar Dokić (13 April - 5 December 1893), Đorđe Simić (29 December 1896 - 23 October 1897), Nikola Pasić (10 December 1904 - 29 May 1905), Nikola Pašić and Petar Velimirović (30 April 1906 - 24 February 1909), subsequently acting many times over as Minister of Education, Minister of Foreign Affairs (from 1 April 1893 until 4 June 1893; from 4 June 1893 until 23 November 1893; and from 21 September 1903 until 26 January 1904), Speaker of the National Assembly and the head of the diplomatic mission in Paris.

[8] He collaborated with Stojan Novaković and together published some editions of syntax books, and translations of the works by Taras Shevchenko.

[9] Nikolić also translated George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860) into Serbian under the title Vodenica na flossi in 1893.