Dušan Popović

Dušan Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Поповић; 6 January 1885 – 8 November 1918) was a Serbian journalist, publicist and politician. He was secretary of the Serbian Social Democratic Party (SSDP).

In England, he was often styled Doushan Popovitch.

Early life Dušan A. Popović was born on in the village of Volujak (now part of Dragovo) in the Levač region. His father Aleksa Popović, originally from Vojvodina, was orphaned during the Hungarian Revolution and was adopted as a three-year-old by the Avakumović family in Belgrade in 1848. He went on to become a teacher, and taught in several places, stationed in Volujak at the time of Dušan's birth. Dušan was the seventh child of Aleksa and Jevica (Mileva) Popović.

Dušan spent his childhood in Volujak, where he attended elementary school from 1891 to 1895. Popović attended the first two grades of lower gymnasium in Kragujevac, and the third and fourth in a private school in Jagodina. He passed his finals in Kragujevac. When his older brother Mirko became a substitute teacher at the Užice Gymnasium, Dušan moved in with him and there he attended fifth, sixth and eighth grade. The entire family moved to Užice soon after, and Dušan often returned to his family home in the town later during his life. He attended seventh grade and passed his finals in Belgrade.

Death After many years active in the international socialist movement, Popović died on 8 November 1918. He was buried at Highgate Cemetery next to the grave of Karl Marx but in December 1959, his remains were moved to Belgrade and re-interred in the Alley of Greats at the Belgrade New Cemetery.

Publications Popović D. A. & Katslerovic T. (1918) Memorandum by the Serbian Socialist Party upon the conditions in occupied Serbia Washington, D.C.: Serbian Press Bureau