Gavro Manojlović (27 October 1856 – 1 November 1939) was a Croatian Serb historian, politician, and academic.
Biography Gavro Manojlović was born in Zadar to a family of Serbian descent. He studied in Zagreb and Vienna, where he received his doctorate in philosophy of history and classical philology in 1896. From 1880 he worked as a high school teacher and as a school principal in Požega, Osijek and Zagreb. From 1902, he was a full professor of general history of the ancient world at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. He studied ancient history, Byzantine studies, philosophy of history. Manojlović also wrote a number of textbooks.
On two occasions, from 1908 to 1910 and from 1913 to 1918, he was a representative of the Croat-Serb Coalition in the Croatian Parliament. Manojlović signed an open letter of support for Serbian members of the Croat-Serb Coalition slandered by Unionist Ban Pavao Rauch, for which he was suspended and prematurely retired from his university post, in a crackdown of the government on opposition intellectuals.
As one of the prominent supporters of Yugoslavism, in 1918, Manojlović was a member of the National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, and in 1919 a member of the Temporary National Representation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
From 1908, he was a regular member, and from 1924 to 1933 the president of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He founded the HAZU Oriental Collection.Glasnik HAZU 11/2020., str. 15
He was the editor of the youth newspaper Pobratim and Nastavni vjesnik.
Publications Poetry Collections Mladi dani Veljkovi ("Young Days of Veljkovi", 1880)
History O godini prijenosa sv. Anastazije u Zadar ("About the Year of Transfer of St. Anastasia in Zadar", 1901) Jadransko pomorje IX. stoljeća : u svjetlu istočno-rimske (bizantinske) povijesti ("Adriatic Sea IX Century: In the Light of Eastern Roman (Byzantine) History", 1902) Povijest staroga Orijenta ("History of the Ancient Orient", 1923) Sile pokretnice i pravilnosti u univerzalnoj historiji ("Driving Forces and Regularities in Universal History", 1927)
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