Stefan Marković (politician)

[1] Marković was born in Zemun and finished elementary school in the town in 1815, and high school in Sremski Karlovci in 1821.

[2] He studied at a university in Austria, and in 1834 he moved to Serbia.

He was a member of the government and the secretary of the Prime Minister's Office from 1835; director of the Prince's Office from 28 September 1837; principal secretary of the Privy Council from 1839; member of the council from 1842 to 1857; minister of justice and minister of education from 21 December 1854 to 29 May 1856; acting minister for foreign affairs from 29 May to 16 September 1856; minister of justice and education from 16 September 1856 to 19 June 1857; and again minister for foreign affairs from 19 June 1857 to 31 March 1858.

[2] Marković was nominated the first member of the Društvo srbske slovesnosti (Society Of Serbian Letters: forerunner of the Serbian Royal Academy) on 27 May 1842; he also held the post of the president of the Society (DSS) from 27 December 1854 until 19 June 1857.

[1][3] With the return to power of Prince Miloš Obrenović, Marković, knowing that his political career was over, left the country in 1858 never to return.