Kosta Hristić

Kosta Hristić (10 April 1852 in Belgrade – March 5, 1927 in Belgrade) was a Serbian lawyer, diplomat, and Minister of Justice.[1]

Kosta Hristić
Minister of Justice
In office
1897–1899
MonarchAleksandar Obrenović
Personal details
Born10 April 1852
Belgrade, Serbia
Died5 March 1927
Belgrade, Yugoslavia

Biography

Kosta was born in Belgrade. His father Nikola Hristić (1818-1911) was a Minister and the Prime Minister of Serbia, and his mother Juliana, born Hadži Jovanović, was a granddaughter of Toma Vučić Perišić. He finished Terazije elementary school and then high school. He graduated from Belgrade Faculty of Law, and then studied law in Germany (Berlin, Heidelberg 1872) and France. Kosta worked at the court of Valjevo for three years, and then at the Urban Belgrade court. After that, he was Secretary of the Serbian embassy in Constantinople (1883), Consul in Thessaloniki (1889-1890), and chief at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in 1888 and 1894). He was also a representative of the Kingdom of Serbia in Bucharest (1895), Rome (1899) and Vienna (1900-1903), and Minister of Justice in Vladan Đorđević's government (1897-1899).[2]

References
  1. Beogradska groblja, Kosta Hristić
  2. Zapisi starog Beograđanina, Kosta Hristić, 2011
Government offices
Preceded by
Milovan Milovanović 		Minister of Justice of Serbia
1897–1899		 Succeeded by
Đorđe Stefanović
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