Andrej Andrejević

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Andrej Andrejević (Serbian Cyrillic: Андреј Андрејевић; Beška, 1696 - Velika Remeta, 1 August 1782) was a Serbian merchant, postmaster and benefactor.

Biography

He came from one of the most prominent Serbian families of the 17th-centuryand the 18th century. His father Petar Andrejević was a wealthy Karlovac merchant. During that period the Ottomans declared war on the Habsburg Monarchy in 1716 and attacked Karlovac setting it on fire under the command of Grand Vizier Ali Pasha. The invasion was a catastrophe, however, and the Ottoman army was utterly destroyed and the Grand Vizier was slain at the Battle of Petrovaradin in August of that year by an outnumbered Austrian army under the command of Prince Eugene of Savoy, who went on to capture Belgrade a year later. At the subsequent Treaty of Passarowitz in 1718, the Austrians gained possession of the Banat, Serbia, and Oltenia. Petar Andrejević, a veteran of Serbian Militia that fought in that war, led a delegation to Vienna to see the Austrian Emperor Charles VI who following the meeting issued the Serbs the privilege of using state land. Petar also restored the Serbian monastery of Kovilj after it was ruined in the war. His son Andrej for almost five decades of the XVIII century went on to become one of the most prominent personalities of the then Serbian society. Andrej held an extremely important position as administrator of the Karlovac region.

At the same time, Andrej was the manager of the post office in Petrovaradin. Andrej and his brother Jakov were the richest merchants in Karlovac. They held a large property together, and they leased wastelands where they raised cattle for sale in Vienna and Belgrade.

In 1735 Ktitors Andrej and Jakov Andrejević commissioned the construction at Velika Remeta monastery the highest bell tower in all of Srem and Fruška gora, 38.6 meters in height, at the time of Arsenije IV Jovanović Šakabenta. Andrej was the tenant and administrator of the Karlovac spahiluk, as well as the manager of the post office in Petrovaradin, while his brother Jakov was the manager of the Karlovac post office. Both of them played a significant role in Karlovac's public life, and they were also involved in trade and commerce. Andrej Andrejević went on to receive the nobility on 25 May 1763.

In 1733, Andrej commissioned the artist Hristofor Žefarović to make a copperplate engraving of the Ascension of Christ for a Serbian monastery in Komogovina.

Being in the position of spahiluk administrator at the time of Serbian patriarch Arsenije IV Jovanović Šakabenta enabled the unhindered use of houses and metropolitan buildings that were on Spahija land.In 1744, he enabled the patriarch to buy five houses for the patriarchate. As an exceptional patriot and for the people's cause of the determined fighter, Arsenije IV sent him with the Serbian on two occasions delegation to Vienna to confirm the Serbian privileges obtained from the imperial court. In the following years, he generously assisted numerous Serbian delegations and thus significantly contributed to the struggle for the rights of the Serbian people.

Source

• Petar Momirović, Stari srpski zapisi i natpisi iz Vojvodine, I, Novi Sad, 1993, no. 477.

Literature

• Milutin Jakšić, O Arseniju IV Jovanoviću Šakabenti, Sremski Karlovci, 1899; Vojvodina II, Novi Sad, 1939; GIDNS, 1940, XIII, vol. 14;
• Kosta Petrović, Stari Karlovčani, Novi Sad, 1940;
• Slavko Gavrilović, "Srem from the end of the 17th to the middle of the 18th century", Novi Sad, 1979.

References

• Translated Andrej Andrejević's Serbian biography: https://www.maticasrpska.org.rs/stariSajt/biografije/biografije_sbr.pdf

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