Stanojevic, like Nikola Tesla, his friend and contemporary, believed that the products of science were common good which should develop and improve lives of all people. It was destiny that such a man became a rector of the University of Belgrade at the most challenging time in its history: the First World War [8]. Despite the fact that wars destroy everything, it is not so common that a university is faced with the fact of its physical disappearance. This reached its peak in 1914 when the University of Belgrade was bombed. It was as if Austro-Hungarian war machinery [9] wanted to completely obliterate the idea of Serbian culture and identity, so it brutally bombed the objects which by rule should not be part of any war activity or strategy..
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 19:38:13 +0000
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