ОСТАВКЕ НА ЧЛАНСТВО У СРПСКОЈ КРАЉЕВСКОЈ АКАДЕМИЈИ
RESIGNATIONS FROM THE MEMBERSHIP IN THE SERBIAN ROYAL ACADEMY

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents chronologically all cases of resignations from membership in the Serbian Royal Academy, as well as the cases when individuals, knowing that they were on the list of candidates or elected persons, requested withdrawal of candidacy or annulment of elections. Although these cases were not uncommon in the six-decade long history of the Academy, their final result was almost negligible. The only resignation that remained definitive was the one made by Mihailo Gavrilović, when he thanked for the election in 1914 and reaffirmed his decision of not wanting to be a member of the Academy in 1919. He explained his decision with his preoccupation with other jobs and further development of his career, in which, as he believed, there was no place to dedicate himself to the title of academician and duties in the Academy. The reasons for resigning, at least those with reliable historical data, were mostly related to the work of the Academy itself. However, there were also those which had nothing to do with the work of the institution, such as the resignation of Vatroslav Jagić in 1903 and Petar Kolendić in 1935. In these cases, both the Academy and its members made efforts to withdraw their resignations, and that effort paid off. Even after once accepted resignations, academics did not avoid to reelect those who once renounced their membership. Since they were high-ranking scientists, after reelection they justified the given trust with their great contribution to the work of the Academy and development of Serbian science in general.

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