23 Facts About Milan Grol

Milan Grol was a Serbian literary critic, historian and politician.

Milan Grol was director of the National Theatre in Belgrade.

Milan Grol was born in Belgrade on 12 September 1876.

Milan Grol completed his studies at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy in 1899 and then taught for a year at a secondary school.

Milan Grol returned to Serbia in 1902 and found work as a teacher at the National Theatre in Belgrade.

Alongside writers such as Jovan Skerlic, Radoje Domanovic and Stevan M Lukovic, Grol wrote many articles critical of King Alexander I in newspapers such as Dnevni list and Odjek.

Politically, Grol identified with a group of left-wing urban democrats led by Ljubomir Zivkovic, Ljubomir Stojanovic and Jasa Prodanovic.

Milan Grol became a dramatist at the National Theatre and remained in that position until 1906.

Milan Grol taught for three more years before becoming the director of the National Theatre in 1909.

Milan Grol joined the main committee of the Independent Radical Party in 1913.

Milan Grol remained director of the National Theatre until the outbreak of World War I in the summer of 1914.

Milan Grol was again named director of the National Theatre in 1918 and held this position until 1924.

Milan Grol was twice elected to the parliament of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, in 1925 and 1927.

Milan Grol was a member of a Yugoslav coalition government consisting of Democrats, Radicals and the Slovene People's Party, and served as Minister of Education until 1929 when he reunited with Davidovic and joined the opposition.

In 1929, Grol joined the Ilija M Kolarac Endowment Committee and organized the Kolarac People's University in Belgrade.

Milan Grol became the Kolarcev People's University's first director in 1941.

Milan Grol joined the government of Dusan Simovic in March 1941 and went into exile following the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia that April.

Milan Grol's whole life is a record of working for the people,.

Milan Grol lived in a small house on a modest street in.

Milan Grol held various posts in the Yugoslav government-in-exile during World War II in London: Minister for Social Welfare and Public Health, from 27 March to January 1942; Minister of Transport, from 10 January 1942 to 26 June 1943; and Minister of Foreign Affairs, from 26 June to 10 August 1943.

On 18 August 1945, Milan Grol resigned his cabinet post because the communists failed to observe the conditions that had been agreed upon with the government-in-exile when the unified government was established.

Milan Grol tried to re-publish the pre-war Democratic Party magazine called Demokratija, but was blocked by the Partisans.

Milan Grol was placed under house arrest in November 1945, and withdrew from public life after the introduction of communist rule.