Tugomir Alaupović

Professor, poet, storyteller and statesman. He became the first non-foreign professor at any Gymnasium (High school) in Bosnia & Herzegovina with his role at the Sarajevo Gymnasium.

He studied Slavic and classical philology at the University of Zagreb and Vienna. He received his doctorate in 1894 from the University of Vienna becoming the first from Bosnia & Herzegovina to hold a Ph.D. From 1913-15 he was the superintendent of secondary schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He held numerous government roles including the role of minister.

He worked as a professor in Sarajevo (1904–1910). In 1910 he became principal of the "Great Gymnasium" in Tuzla. From 1913 to 1915 he was a school counselor and superintendent of secondary schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Austro-Hungarian government who suspiciously observed every act of spiritual and national identity in Bosnia, in Tugomir's work, recognized the alleged treason, then removed him from the education service, and brought him to trial.

Due to his Yugoslav orientation, he was under Austro-Hungarian government surveillance in Sarajevo.From mid-1918 until the end of the war in Zagreb, he was Secretary of the Croatian Matica (Croatian: Matica hrvatska). With the establishment of the Kingdom, he became Minister of Religion in the first government of the SXS. In Sarajevo, in the same year, he became a member of the People's Council of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and by decree the National Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina returned him to his former service in education.