Law · XX century · Sarajevo
Mehmed Spaho
1883 — 1939 · lived 56 years
Lawyer, statesman, intellectual and community leader who graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Vienna in 1906 becoming one of the earliest university educated leaders. At the end of 1907 he passed the doctoral exam and on 7 February 1908 became one of the first to hold a Ph.D title. He was strong propagator of equal rights, strongly advocating democracy, constitutionality, justice and harmony among the ethnic groups in Bosnia & Herzegovina as well Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Kingdom of Yugoslavia).
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