Stjepan Jovanović

Stjepan Jovanović (Stephan Freiherr (Baron) von Jovanovich; 5 January 1828 – 8 December 1885) was a military commander of the Austrian Empire from the Military Frontier.

[1] Jovanović was born in the village of Pazarište near Gospić in Lika (then Military Frontier, Austrian Empire, today Croatia).

[1] He joined the Austrian army in 1845 and during 1848–1849 fought under general Radetzky in Italy.

Because of his knowledge of Bosnia, Herzegovina, Montenegro and Krivošije, he was recalled back into the army in 1865, as a colonel.

During the 1869 insurrection in Boka Kotorska, he commanded a Gebirgsjäger (mountain troops) brigade in Kotor (Cattaro) that tried to suppress the uprising, but failed.