JOVAN OBRENOVIĆ, portret iz 1836. godine, rad Uroša Kneževića

Jovan Obrenović oko 1850. godine, litografija Anastasa Jovanovića

JOVAN OBRENOVIĆ (1796-1850), biografija

GOSPODAR JOVAN OBRENOVIĆ
DIVIZIONI GENERAL, KOMANDANT MORAVSKO-PODRINSKE
VOJNE OBLASTI

ROĐEN JE 1796. U SREDNJOJ DOBRINJI. UOČI SKUPA U TAKOVU RASTERAO JE 22. APRILA 1815. TURSKE POREZDŽIJE U KONJUŠI. OD 25. APRILA DRŽAO JE POD OPSADOM ČAČAK. NA POČETKU BITKE KOMANDOVAO JE KONJICOM, A MAJU CELOKUPNIM SRPSKIM SNAGAMA NA POLOŽAJIMA OKO GRADA. POSLE POBEDE NA ČAČKU ODVEO JE VOJSKU DA OPSEDA UŽICE. GODINE 1816. BIO JE NA ČELU SRPSKE DEPUTACIJE U CARIGRADU. KNEZ MILOŠ GA JE IMENOVAO ZA KNEZA RUDNIČKE, A OD 1832. POD NJEGOVU UPRAVU STAVLJENA JE I POŽEŠKA NAHIJA. U ČAČKU JE SAGRADIO CRKVU SV. ĐORĐA OKO 1820, KONAK 1835, A U BRUSNICI CRKVU SV. NIKOLE 1837. POSLE BUNE 1842. PREŠAO JE U AUSTRIJU. UMRO JE U SREMSKIM KARLOVCIMA 1850. GODINE.

Čačak 1860. godine, crtež Feliksa Kanica

Master Jovan Obrenovic,
Division General, Commander of Morava-Podrinje Military District
He was born in Srednja Dobrinja in 1796. At the dawn of Takovo Uprising he made Turkish tax collectors run away in Konjusa on 22nd May, 1815. He held Cacak since 25th April. At the beginning of the battle he was in command of cavalry and in May the whole of Serbian forces on the positions around the town. After the victory in Cacak he took the army to attack Uzice. In 1816 he was leading Serbian delegation in Carigrad (Istanbul). Prince Milos appointed him Duke of Rudnik and later Pozega Districts. He built church of St. George in Cacak about 1820 and Konak in 1835, and in he built church of St. Nicolas in Brusnica in 1837. After the Uprising in 1842 he moved to Austria and died in Sremski Karlovci in 1850.