RENOWNED SERBIAN ARCHITECT ANDRA STEVANOVIĆ

BIJELJINA, NOVEMBER 11 /SRNA/ – Serbian architect Andra Stevanović /1859-1929/, a member of the Serbian Royal Academy and professor at the Belgrade Higher School and University, was born on November 12, 1859.

Stevanović designed several monumental buildings, including the National Museum and the Academy of Sciences in Belgrade.

He studied old Serbian church architecture and collected material for monographs on the Gračanica, Kalenić and Dečani monasteries.

Stevanović graduated from the Technical Faculty of the Belgrade Higher School and joined the civil service, where he spent two years working as a junior engineer for the Belgrade District.

Like most Serbian engineers of the time, Stevanović had to study architecture abroad, enrolling at the Technical University of Berlin.

He graduated and passed the state examination, an uncommon achievement in Germany, which granted this privilege to only a small number of foreigners.

Stevanović returned to Serbia and took up a position as an engineer at the Ministry of Construction.

He was a professor at the Technical Faculty of the Belgrade Higher School, where he worked until his retirement.

In 1905, Stevanović was among the first eight full professors of the University of Belgrade, who were responsible for selecting the rest of the teaching staff. In doing so, he fulfilled his lifelong ideal, to which he remained faithful until his death.