Ljubomir Tadić

Ljubomir "Ljuba" Tadić (14 May 1925 – 31 December 2013) was a Serbian academic and politician.

He was born in Smriječno village near Plužine, then in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He was a Belgrade Law School graduate and a professor of philosophy at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy as well as a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. His father Pavle Tadić was a lieutenant of the Montenegrin Army in the wars against the Ottomans. Pavle opened the first school in Piva, during the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Tadić was one of the founders of the Democratic Party (DS) in Serbia in December 1989. He was one of the leaders of the pro-European movement in Serbia. Tadić was of the Piva Herzegovinian clan.

Tadić was married to psychiatrist Nevenka Tadić and had two children. His son Boris Tadić served as the President of Serbia from 2004 to 2012. Ljuba Tadić died in Belgrade, Serbia, aged 88.

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 109768106 LCCN: n88093053 ISNI: 0000 0001 2147 4860 GND: 122515099 SUDOC: 028384067 BNF: cb12023012k (data)

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