Arsen Sečujac

Arsenije Sečujac (, ; 1720 – 13 January 1814) was a Serbian Habsburg general who earned the rank of major general at the very end of his military career and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of Maria Theresa, the highest Monarchy decoration, in 1762.

Biography

Early life An ethnic Serb, Sečujac was born in 1720, somewhere in Syrmia, most likely in Eastern Syrmia (in modern Serbia), which at the time was part of the Slavonian Military Frontier (where the Slavonia-Petrovaradin Military Infantry Regiment was established later, in 1747). His father was Đorđe (or Georgije), a Habsburg military commander, and his mother was named Ana Stanisavljević.

A captaincy which he established was based in Bela Crkva, but was short-lived, disestablished in 1776.

He headed a political group which advocated unity of the Serbian people. He was a supporter of Dositej Obradović.

At the very end of his military career, on 24 February 1783, he was promoted to the rank of major general, but he retired on the 10 April that year.

He died at the age of 93 in Vienna in 1814.