ПАВЛЕ СТАМАТОВИЋ У СРПСКОМ НАРОДНОМ ПОКРЕТУ 1848/49.
PAVLE STAMATOVIĆ IN SERBIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT 1848/49.

Summary/Abstract: The article is related to activities of priest from Novi Sad, Pavle Stamatović, in Serbian National Movement in the course of the Revolution 1848/49. In the two years of intensive struggle to ensure better political future for the Serbs in Austria, Stamatović executed numerous significant tasks. Leaning on archival materials, the author made an attempt to establish what duties Stamatović was tasked with and in what manner he was fulfilling them. Certain Stamatović’s contemporaries attribute him a decisive role in Serbian National Movement in pre-revolutionary stir. He was a member of the delegation to consign demands of Novi Sad Municipality to Hungarian Diet in March 1848. The following month, supreme judge of Kikinda District Luka Kengelac notified newly established Hungarian authorities that Stamatović incited leaders of riots in Kikinda on April 12th. Afterwards, he participated in May Assembly (from May 1st to May 3rd 1848) as a deputy, visited Prague as one of Serbian envoys to Slavic Congress (May 19th to May 31st), was sent to Belgrade in order to request military assistance for Serbian Vojvodina from Serbia (beginning of July 1848) and distinguished himself in September Assembly (September 27th to October 2nd 1848), on which occasion he contributed certain financial resources to Serbian National Movement. In 1849, Stamatović’s national work is manifested mainly in his diplomatic activities. The need for intensification of diplomatic activity occurred after the situation at battlefields in Bačka and Banat had switched on behalf of the Hungarians during the course of March. Within the framework of extensive efforts to provide military aid for the Serbs in Vojvodina and thus prevent further Hungarian penetration on Serbian territory, the delegations were sent to commanders of Russian forces in Wallachia and Croatian banus Josip Jelačić. Both of these delegations included Stamatović. Historical sources revealed what were Stamatović’s engagements in the course of 1848 and 1849. On the basis of available archival materials the conclusion can be drawn that Stamatović made the largest contribution to Serbian National Movement as a diplomat. Nevertheless, one cannot exclude the possibility that new documents regarding his participation in the Revolution would be found. It is highly probable that materials of Hungarian and Austrian archives may provide answers to certain unanswered questions in relation to Stamatović.

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