The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Stanoyevich, Milivoy Stoyan

STANOYEVICH, Milivoy Stoyan, Serbian essayist and author: b. Koprivnica, Kraina, Serbia, 14 Feb. 1882. He studied at Belgrade University, where he successfully competed for academic prizes in literary essays. He graduated from that institution in 1907, and was immediately appointed professor ad interim of modern languages at Zaječar College. He came to the United States in 1908 and continued his pursuits in literature, sociology and economics at Columbia University and the University of California, receiving from the last-named institution his degree of M.L. (1914). In 1915 he became a lecturer on Slavonic literature at the University of California, and in 1916 he was nominated as political adviser on Slavic affairs in the office of the Russian consul-general at San Francisco. He has been editor of several Jugoslav publications and frequent contributor to the American periodicals, besides having written ‘Omladina u Sadašnjosti’ (1907); ‘Figure u Pesmama’ (1907); ‘Prevodi u Srpskin Zabavnicima’ (1908); ‘Veština Pisanja’ (1915); ‘Pessimisme et Optimisme dans la Sociologie’ (in joint collaboration with his brother, Milosh S.) in 1913; ‘Tolstoy's Theory of Social Reform’ (1914); ‘Russian Foreign Policy in the East’ (1916), etc. His writings are marked by a fresh and vigorous style, by refined simplicity and incisive diction. His studies are full of delicate observations of human nature and he may be justly regarded as a representative writer of Serbian prose.