Vladimir Jovanović

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Vladimir Jovanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир Јовановић, also spelled in English as Vladimir Yovanovich) (September 28, 1833, Šabac, Serbia - March 3, 1922, Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) was a Serbian politician, political theorist, economist and journalist.

Jovanović was educated at the Universities of Vienna and Berlin in agricultural and economic sciences. In Serbia he was а Professor of Economics at the Great School (later to become the University of Belgrade), Minister of Finance, President of the Serbian Scientific Society and an honorary member of the Serbian Royal Academy.

In 1863 he went to Britain to try to raise sympathies in Britain for the efforts of Serbia to liberate itself from the Ottoman Empire. On that occasion he published a pamphlet "The Serbian Nation and the Eastern Question".

He was a liberal thinker propagating individual liberty, national liberation, and education. Jovanović was influenced by John Stuart Mill and the British parliamentary system.

His major work was the Political Dictionary (1872). His son was Slobodan Jovanović the leading Serbian interwar historian and jurist.