Kosta Hristić

Kosta Hristić (April 10, 1852 – March 5, 1927) was a Serbian lawyer, diplomat and Minister of Justice.

His father Nikola Hristić (1818–1911) was a Minister and the Prime Minister of Serbia, and his mother Juliana, born Hadži Jovanović, was a granddaughter of Toma Vučić Perišić.

He graduated from Belgrade Faculty of Law, and then studied law in Germany (Berlin, Heidelberg 1872) and France.

After that, he was Secretary of the Serbian embassy in Constantinople (1883), Consul in Thessaloniki (1889–1890), and chief at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in 1888 and 1894).

He was also a representative of the Kingdom of Serbia in Bucharest (1895), Rome (1899) and Vienna (1900–1903), and Minister of Justice in Vladan Đorđević's government (1897–1899).