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**General**
Dimitrije Đurić
General Dimitrije Đurić
	General Dimitrije Đurić in 1891
Minister of War
	In office; 2 February 1890 – 16 March 1890
Minister of War
	In office; 21 March 1892 – 9 August 1892
Personal details
Born	29 September 1838; Belgrade, Principality of Serbia
Died	19 October 1893 (aged 55); Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia
Military service
Allegiance	Principality of Serbia; Kingdom of Serbia
Years of service	1862–1893
Rank	General
Battles/wars	Serbo-Turkish War; Serbo Bulgarian War

Dimitrije Đurić (Serbian Cyrillic: Димитрије Ђурић; 29 September 1838 – 19 October 1893) was a Serbian army officer, minister of defence, professor at the military academy and member of the Serbian Royal Academy of Science.^[1] He also served as 8th Dean of the Academic Board of the Military Academy in Serbia and its chief on two occasions, 1887-1889 and 1891-1893.

Biography

As an artillery officer in training Dimitrije Đurić spent the period 1865-67 in Russia at Tsar Nicholas I General Staff Academy. In Russia, Durić participated in the founding of Srpska opština (Serbian commune), he became its president while another artillery officer, and future prime minister, Sava Grujić its vice-president and radical-socialist Svetozar Marković its secretary. The goal of the Commune, was "the establishment of fraternal relations among all Serbs in Russia", with a view to “cooperation for the general progress of the Serbian people and nation”.^[2]

Personal life

Dimitrije Đurić was married to Persida Matić, daughter of Minister of Education Dimitri Matić. They had three sons: Captain of artillery Milan Đurić (died at the battle of Vranje in 1911), Miloš Đurić and Velizar Đurić, and four daughters: Stanislava married to Colonel Dr Roman Sondermajer (children: Vladislaw Sondermajer, Lieutenant Colonel of aviation; Tadija Sondermajer, famous pilot of the Great War and founder of Aeroput; Stanislav Sondermajer, youngest hero of the battle of Cer and daughter Jadviga); Dragica married to Vladimir Sajnović; author Spasenija Pata Markovic married to Major Djordje Ristić and Ljubica married to Lieutenant Colonel Mihailo Naumović.