Milutin Bojić

Milutin Bojić
Milutin Bojić, c. 1912
Native name	Милутин Бојић
Born	18 May [O.S. 7 May] 1892 Belgrade, Serbia
Died	8 November [O.S. 25 October] 1917 (aged 25) Thessaloniki, Greece
Resting place	New Cemetery, Belgrade
Nationality	Serbian
Alma mater	University of Belgrade
Occupation	Poet Playwright Literary critic Soldier
Years active	1907 – 1917
Partner(s)	Radmila Todorović
Website	www.milutinbojic.org.rs

Milutin Bojić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милутин Бојић; 18 May [O.S. 7 May] 1892 – 8 November [O.S. 25 October] 1917) was a Serbian poet, theatre critic, playwright, and soldier.

A native of Belgrade, he began writing poetry at an early age and published a number of literary reviews under a pseudonym while he was still a teenager. He rose to prominence during the Balkan Wars, writing about his experiences in territories newly retaken from the Ottoman Empire. The outbreak of World War I interrupted Bojić's studies at the University of Belgrade and forced him to postpone marrying his girlfriend, Radmila Todorović. The couple were separated in the chaos of war, and Bojić left Belgrade with his family and relocated to Niš, where he worked as a military censor and wrote articles for a local newspaper to pay his family's bills. In October 1915, the Serbian Army was overwhelmed by a combined Austro-Hungarian, Bulgarian and German invasion and forced to retreat to neutral Greece via Albania. Bojić and his younger brother joined the exodus, marching for several weeks through Kosovo, Montenegro and northern Albania, where they were finally reunited with Bojić's fiancée. Bojić was not allowed to accompany his brother and fiancée on a ship destined for Italy because he was of fighting age, and had to continue marching to Greece without them.

In early 1916, Bojić reached the Greek island of Corfu, where he was recruited to work for Serbian military intelligence. That summer, he was transferred to Thessaloniki, where he continued working for the military. In August, he was granted leave and sailed to France, where he reunited with his fiancée and his brother. Bojić returned to Greece several weeks later, and was diagnosed with tuberculosis in September the following year. Owing to the political connections of his patrons, he managed to find care at an exclusive military hospital in Thessaloniki, but by late October his condition worsened. He died in early November at the age of 25. He was initially buried at the Allied military cemetery at Zeitenlik, but in 1922, his siblings had his remains relocated to Belgrade, where they were reburied beside those of his parents.