Last Wills and Legacy Inventories of the Merchants from Zemun from the early 19th Century Cover Image

Тестаменти и инвентари оставине земунских трговаца с почетка 19. века
Last Wills and Legacy Inventories of the Merchants from Zemun from the early 19th Century

Author(s): Jelena Ilić Mandić, Bojana Miljković Katić
Subject(s): History
Published by: Istorijski institut, Beograd
Keywords: last will; legacy inventory; merchants; Teodor Marinović Vuk; Ignjat Jeftić; Dragutin Milutinović; Zemun

Summary/Abstract: The Last will as a historical source was mainly used by the middle age and early modern period reasearchers, especially those dealing with economic and social histories. Altough the three Zemun merchants from the early 19th century, whose last wills are here published, were not the only merchants with interesting last testament contents. However, they were chosen because of their close business relations, and their political relations with the Serbian merchants who became leaders of the First Serbian Uprising. Teodor Marinović Vuk is remembered as one of the uprising enablers, and Dragutin Milutinović was, with Miloš Urošević and Dimitrije Marković-Ratković, one of the major uprising suppliers and also a man of considerable political influence in Serbia. Evidence is only scarce when it comes to Ignjat Jeftić and his connections with his business partners in the Pashaluk of Belgrade.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 33
  • Page Range: 231-266
  • Page Count: 36
  • Language: Serbian