Fedor Nikolics

Baron Fedor Nikolić de Rudna (; ; ; 7 June 1836 – 27 February 1903) was an Austro-Hungarian nobleman, landowner, politician, diplomat, and imperial official of Serbian descent.

A grandson of Miloš Obrenović, Prince of Serbia, Nikolić played an important role in the public and political life of the Kingdom of Hungary and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He served as a member of the Diet of Hungary, Imperial and Royal Privy Councillor, Főispán, Civil Adlatus (civil governor) of the Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Royal Commissioner to the Serbian Orthodox Church Congress. He was also one of the largest landowners and financiers in Vojvodina and Banat and he was considered the second wealthiest Serb in Austria-Hungary, after .

Early life and family Fedor Nikolić was born on 7 June 1836 in Temesvár (now Timișoara, Romania). He was the second son of Baron János Nikolics de Rudna (1810–1880), a prominent landowner of the Macedonia estate in Torontál County, and Princess Elisabeta "Eliza" Obrenović (1814–1848), daughter of the reigning Prince of Serbia, Miloš Obrenović. His mother died while he was still young.

On 18 November 1854, the Austrian baronial title was conferred upon his father János and extended to his sons Miloš, Fedor, and Mihály. Fedor received confirmation of the Hungarian baronial dignity with hereditary membership in the House of Magnates on 10 February 1886. under the military government of Hermann Freiherr Dahlen von Orlaburg on 1 August 1882. Baron Fedor II Nikolić de Rudna, an attaché in the Austro-Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and universal heir to the baronial estate Countess Elisabeth Nikolić de Rudna, who married Count Eugen Hardegg, a lieutenant-colonel of hussars in the Austro-Hungarian Army János Nikolić de Rudna (died in infancy, 1877) Micheline Nikolić de Rudna (died in 1901)

Illness and death In early 1902, Nikolić suffered declining health due to heart complications, asthma, and severe rheumatism, seeking medical treatment in Vienna and Baden. He spent his final months bedridden at his estate in Rudna under the care of prominent physicians, including Professor Hawas from Budapest and Dr. Sternfeld from Temesvár. Honorary citizenship: Honorary Citizen of Sarajevo (1886)