Golub Janić

Golub S. Janić (Mavrovo 1853 – Belgrade 1918) was a Serbian millionaire, MP, benefactor, and the most influential personality among the Macedonian Serbs living in Serbia at the beginning of the 20th century.

Life

Janić was born in 1853 in Mavrovo to father Samuilo and mother Sofija (née Pejić).

His grandfather Jane had previously gone to Belgrade and started trading. His father Samuilo (1830–1889) was also a tradesman in the Serbian capital.

Golub Janić finished primary school and high school in Belgrade. The same society also took part in humanitarian actions, such as gathering help from Serbs in USA to the flood-stricken areas of Serbia in 1910. Srpska braća seized to operate after World War One.

In 1915 he retreated with the Serbian army to Novi Pazar but then returned to Belgrade where he spent the entire Austro-Hungarian occupation. He died in 1918 just before the Serbian army entered the city.

Endowment funds

Bosiljka Janić founded several endowment funds. The first one was in money given to the newly established Faculty of Philosophy and to Teachers' School in Skopje to reward the best essays on history and ethnography of Macedonia once per year. The second fund was in money and buildings with the purpose of building each year a new school in Macedonia, with a home for teachers in Southern Serbia and today's Macedonia. The third fund was dedicated to helping poor primary-school children.