Milan Jovanović Stojimirović (Smederevo, Kingdom of Serbia, 19 June 1898 – Belgrad, Serbia, Yugoslavia, 6 March 1966) was a Serbian journalist, diplomat, manager of the Archive of Serbia, and chronicler of Old Belgrade. His vast collection of paintings, sculptures and artifacts were bequeathed to the Museum and National Library in Smederevo. Childhood and youth He was born in Smederevo to father Svetozar Jovanović, a shoemaker, and mother Jelena nee Stojimirović. He lost his father early, so his mother Jelena and uncle Dr. Dušan Stojimirović (1870–1956) took care of him and his younger brother Ivan. Out of gratitude, both brothers added Stojimirović to their surname. He finished elementary school in Smederevo and high school in Smederevo and Belgrade. During the First World War, he stayed in Belgrade with his uncle, Dr. Dušan Stojimirović, who was the manager of the mental hospital. There he met Petar Kočić and wrote an article about it published in 1922 in the Serbian Literary Gazette. He studied in Belgrade and Bern and graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade in 1927. Work He edited the magazines Smederevski zurnal, Revi (only one issue was published), Samouprava and in Skopje the magazines Vardar and Glas Juga. He started the newspaper Vardar in 1932 and was its head until mid-December 1935 when Milan Stojadinović appointed him editor-in-chief of the renewed party body Samouprava. He was also a journalist for "Politika" for a while. During his studies in Switzerland, he was appointed correspondent of the Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the Embassy in Bern. He was in this position from November 1923 to June 1926. Due to the conflict with Member of Parliament Milutin Jovanović, he left that post. He was then appointed journalist of the Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Belgrade, in August 1926, and he performed that job until December 1928. He was then transferred as a correspondent for the Press Department at the Embassy in Berlin. The following year, he was transferred as the correspondent of the Central Presbytery of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. He remained in that position until 1931 when he was again transferred as the correspondent of the Central Presbytery in Skopje. He was the director of the Avala News Agency from 1937 to 1938. He was an MP of the ruling coalition, elected in 1938 in Smederevo on