Mihailo Ristić

Mihailo Ristić (; Belgrade, Principality of Serbia, 5 September 1864 — Belgrade, Serbia, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, 15 August 1925) was a Serbian diplomat, consul, and representative of Ristić's main activity as a consul and diplomat was to help the Serbian people and the church in Macedonia and Old Serbia, as well as their protection from Bulgarian and Greek propaganda and armed action.

Family Mihailo Ristić is the son of Gavrilo Ristić, a Belgrade merchant, and Katarina Ćiprić from the family of Đorđe Ćipra, a Belgrade merchant.

Mihailo and Pravda had a son, Andrija "Andra" Ristić, a lawyer, who graduated from high school in Paris and the Faculty of Law in Belgrade, where he received his doctorate (1936).

Education In Belgrade, Mihailo Ristić finished primary school, First Belgrade Gymnasium and the Faculty of Law at the Velika škola. He graduated in 1886 with a degree in Jurisprudence, and after that he spent a post-graduate year studying in Paris at the School of Political Science.

Diplomatic Service Mihailo G. Ristić spent his entire working life in the diplomatic service. He started his career working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia in 1884. As secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he traveled throughout Kosovo, including Pristina, and testified that the situation was so bad because of livestock raids from Albania are increasing and causing villagers to move out of Kosovo that he fears that in a generation or two there will be fewer and fewer Serbs there. That report of his on the work of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was published.

Although the young king Aleksandar Obrenović staged a coup d'état in January 1894, which led to the fall of the Serbian government and a change in politics. Ristić stayed in the city on the Bosphorus until the fall of 1895. In 1896 he was made temporary secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Belgrade. Also, in 1907 he was appointed as Serbia's representative in Rome, In 1913, he was assigned to the Serbian consulate in România together with Nikola Pašić prior to the Treaty of Bucharest (1913). He went from Rome to Corfu, where the assembly session opened at the end of August 1916.

During 1920, he was a delegate of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in the Danube Commission. Diplomat Ristić retired in 1924, and died a year later in Belgrade.

Activity

Ristić's main activity as a consul and diplomat was protecting national interest and the awakening of national consciousness in Macedonia.