Avram Petronijević

Who was Avram Petronijević?

Avram Petronijević was a politician and several times Foreign Minister of the Principality of Serbia.

Petronijević was born in Tekija, on the Danube. He taught school in neighboring Orşova, and in 1817 he returned to Serbia. He became the personal secretary of Prince Miloš Obrenović. He was a member of the Serbian deputation in Constantinople from 1821 until 1826, and later several times a Serbian deputy at the Turkish government. Later, with Toma Vučić-Perišić, Petronijević stood at the head of Ustavobranioci against the Prince Prince Miloš Obrenović. During the reign of Prince Alexander Karađorđevic, from 1844 until his death he was Minister of Foreign Affairs and Representative of the Prince. He died in Constantinople on April 22, 1852 and was buried in the church of St. Petka on the Bosporus, in addition to Samuilo Jakovljevic, his colleague from deputation, who died in 1824.