Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch

Infobox Prince
name =Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch


royal house =Karageorgevich
father =Prince George Karageorgevich
mother =Sarka Anastasijevic
date of birth =birth date|1862|1|11
place of birth =
date of death =death date and age|1908|4|14|1862|1|11
place of death = Versailles|

Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch (11 January 1862 - 14 April 1908) was a member of the House of Karageorgevich.

Life account

Prince Bojidar belonged to the senior line of the Karageorgevich dynasty. He was the second son of Prince George Karageorgevich and his wife Sarka Anastasijevic his older brother was Prince Alexis Karageorgevich. His grandfather Prince Alexa was the eldest son of Karađorđe Petrović the founder of the House of Karageorgevich and leader of the First Serbian Uprising.

Prince Bojidar lived in France for most of his life as the members of the Karageorgevich dynasty were in exile after Prince Alexander Karageorgevich lost the Serbian throne in 1858. Bojidar travelled a lot and went on a number of trips around the world. He served in the French Army and fought in the French campaign at Tonking and was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honour. [citation | newspaper=New York Times |pages=2 |date=1913-06-12 ] To earn a living he gave singing and drawing lessons before becoming a translator and journalist. [cite book | last = Knapp | first = Bettina Liebowitz | title = Judith Gautier: Writer, Orientalist, Musicologist, Feminist, a Literary Biography | publisher = University Press of America | date = 2004 | pages = 277 | isbn = 0761830006 ]

During one of his trips abroad he travelled extensively around India visiting thirty eight cities. He wrote a book about his experiences called "Enchanted India" in which he offered an account of the Indian people their religious rites and other ceremonies. He also provided detailed descriptions of the Indian landscape and buildings. [cite news |title=Two Books about India |publisher=New York Times |pages=BR501 |date=1898-07-29 ]

In his later years Bojidar worked in a sculptor studio and often spent time with Georges Lacombe. He died in Versailles. [cite news |title=Death of a Servian Prince |publisher=New York Times |pages=C2 |date=1908-04-26 ]

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