Bogdan Žerajić
| Bogdan Žerajić | |
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| Born |
1 February 1886 Miljevići, Nevesinje, Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 15 June 1910 (aged 24) Sarajevo, Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary |
| Resting place | Saint Mark Cemetery, Sarajevo |
| Occupation | Student |
Bogdan Žerajić (Serbian: Богдан Жерајић; 1 February 1886 – 15 June 1910) was a Bosnian Serb student of the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb. In 1910 he attempted assassination of General Marijan Varešanin, a Governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the day of opening of the Austro-Hungarian Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina because he believed it was illegal and illegitimate. His attempt was his own initiative, an act of personal revolt against Austro-Hungarian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Žerajić was first among young people of Bosnia and Herzegovina to pursue tyrannicide as a method of political struggle. His act had great impact on young people in Bosnia and Herzegovina, while official press in Sarajevo and Belgrade generally referred to it as an act of a disturbed lunatic, which was also generally the view of an older generation of Sarajevo Serbs.
Žerajić and Špiro Soldo were leaders of the secret society "Freedom" (Serbian: Слобода) established in 1905/1906. Žerajić's friendship with Vladimir Gaćinović and his attempted assassination of Varešanin additionally inspired the members of the revolutionary movement Young Bosnia, including Gavrilo Princip. Gaćinović was the real ideologue of the revolutionary movement Young Bosnia and advocated tyrannicide as a method of political struggle. Some authors, including Vladimir Dedijer, emphasize that the basis for this method of political struggle is the cult of "Kosovo tyrannicide".
Žerajić was first to apply this method in the practice. When Franz Joseph I of Austria visited Bosnia and Herzegovina on 3 June 1910, Žerajić had intention to attempt his assassination during his visit to Mostar, but eventually gave it up from unknown reason.
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