Jovan Jovanović - Pižon

Jovan Jovanović Pižon (; 3 September 1869 – 20 June 1939) was a Serbian diplomat, politician and writer who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Serbia from 18 June 1912 to 27 August 1912.

Biography He was born in Belgrade in 1869, where he finished elementary school and high school, as well as law at the Great School in 1891. He then continued his law studies at the University of Paris, where he acquired a degree. Upon his return in May 1892, he was appointed clerk in the Belgrade Town Court.

He behaved elegantly, with a high collar and in a suit tailored in Parisian fashion. Because of he got the nickname Pižon, which means pigeon in French.

Between 1899 and 1903 he was a clerk to the Embassy of the Kingdom of Serbia in Constantinople, a clerk of the Ministry of Finance (1901-1903) and secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was elected associate professor of the Great School in 1900. During 1903–1904, Jovanovic was in Sofia and served as the charge d'affaires and after a break, in 1906, a diplomat in Athens, where he briefly served as charge d'affaires in the embassy of the Kingdom of Serbia in Greece. In 1907 he worked in Cairo and later he took over the duty of consul in Cetinje in from 1907 to 1909. He was on the administration of the Serbian consulate in Skopje from July 1909 to 1911. In 1911, he became the head of the department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and a Minister of Foreign Affairs from 18 June 1912 to 27 August 1912. From 1912 to 1914 he was ambassador to Vienna and after that the assistant minister of foreign affairs from 1914 to 1915. He was constantly with Prime Minister Nikola Pašić, with whom he retreated from Niš, via Kraljevo, Raška, Priština, Prizren to Shkodër. After the consolidation of the state leadership in exile, he left the island of Corfu for a new diplomatic mission. He became the ambassador of the Kingdom of Serbia in London from 1915 to 1916 and the ambassador in Washington D.C from 1919 to 1920.