Anastas Jovanović (
Serbian Cyrillic: Анастас Јовановић,
Bulgarian: Анастас Йованович 1817 – 1 November 1899) was a
Serbian photographer and author.
Biography
Jovanović, was of
Bulgarian origin and during his life he always felt himself a Bulgarian and at the same time a Serb.[1][2][3] He was born in
Vratsa, an important administrative and garrison city under
Ottoman rule in 1817. When Anastas was 9 years old, his father sent him to continue his education in Belgrade, where his uncle worked at the Prince Obrenović sewing studio. In 1830, after the death of Anastas' father, his family moved to Belgrade. But only after one year his uncle who was their support died too.
Anastas' son
Konstantin Jovanović (1849–1923) was a prominent architect. Anastas's daughter
Katarina Jovanović was a prominent Serbian to German translator.
^During his life, Anastas Jovanović always felt himself a Bulgarian, and at the same time a Serb. For some time, Jovanović signed under his lithographs as a "Bulgarian lithographer". In his memoirs about his teaching in Belgrade in 1871-1874, the Bulgarian ethnographer Dimitar Marinov noted that Anastas Jovanović was an honorary member of the Bulgarian Society in the city. Krumka Sharova, "Problemi na bŭlgarskoto vŭzrazhdane", Volume 6, Institut za istoria (Bŭlgarska akademia na naukite), 1981, str. 302.