Tesla's family roots
editHis paternal grandfather Nikola, born around 1789, after whom he was named, was a sergeant in Napoleon's army. [1][2] During the Napoleonic wars, Military Frontier was part of the newly-formed French Province of Illyricum.
After the Napoleon's defeat in Waterloo in 1815, Illirian provinces reverted to Habsburg control.[3] Nikola was returned to his native village of Raduč in Military Frontier, where he soon married Ana Kalinic.[4] [5] They had five children - two sons and three daughters. Tesla's father, Milutin, was born in 1819.[6] According to tradition, in the Military Frontier in the Austrian Empire, Nikola sent both sons to a military school. The younger Joseph successfully completed the military school, while the older Milutin, due to emotional sensitivity, gave up and then entered the seminary and became a Orthodox priest.[7][8] Joseph served as an officer in the Military Frontier, and he retired with the rank of captain on November 1, 1871 in Petrovaradin.[9] During his career as an officer, he wrote a textbook on mathematics and gave lectures on this subject at a military school. [10] [11]
After graduating from the seminary as the best student, in 1845, Milutin Tesla was ordained a deacon in 1846 by Bishop Evgeni Jovanović of Karlstad and sent to the village of Štikadu near Gračac as a chaplain (priest's assistant).[12] Milutin Tesla and Georgina-Đuka Mandic are most probably marriage in the second half of 1846 or the first in 1847.[13] [14]
Her maternal grandfather, Toma Budisavljević, was also in the Grand Army, and he was awarded by Napoleon the Legion of Honour for his military merits.[15] Đuka, Tesla's mother, was born in 1822 in Gornji Gračac, to father Nikola Mandić (1801–1868), parish priest of Gornja Gračac and mother Sofija-Soka Budisavljević.[16][17] Nikola and Sofija Mandić had eight children, and Georgina-Đuka was the oldest.[18] Her brothers or Tesla's uncles were Pavle Mandić, colonel of the Austrian army and Petar Mandić, bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church.[19][20]
In 1847, Milutin was ordained as a priest and his first place of ministry was Senj.[21] The third of their five children was born there - son Danilo-Dane and daughters Milka and Angelina.[22] In 1852, the family moved to Smiljan, where Milutin's new place and parish house next to the church of St. Peter and Paul at the foot of a small hill.[23]
Emperor Franz Joseph I, awarded Milutin with the decree of June 21, 1873, the Order of the Golden Cross of Merit, 1st class (Goldness Verdienstkreuz mit der Krone). [24]
Reference
edit- ^ Matić, Milovan (2015). Српски прота Милутин Тесла (1819-1879), отац Николе Тесле [Serbian protopresbyter Milutin Tesla (1819-1879) Nikola Tesla father. Manastir Studenica. p. 349. ISBN 978-86-87345-05-8.
- ^ Carlson, Bernard (2015). Tesla: Inventor of Electrical Age. Princet University Press. p. 520. ISBN 978-0691165615.
- ^ Carlson, Bernard (2015). Tesla: Inventor of Electrical Age. Princet University Press. p. 520. ISBN 978-0691165615.
- ^ Matić, Milovan (2015). Српски прота Милутин Тесла (1819-1879), отац Николе Тесле [Serbian protopresbyter Milutin Tesla (1819-1879) Nikola Tesla father. Manastir Studenica. p. 349. ISBN 978-86-87345-05-8.
- ^ Carlson, Bernard (2015). Tesla: Inventor of Electrical Age. Princet University Press. p. 520. ISBN 978-0691165615.
- ^ Carlson, Bernard (2015). Tesla: Inventor of Electrical Age. Princet University Press. p. 520. ISBN 978-0691165615.
- ^ Matić, Milovan (2015). Српски прота Милутин Тесла (1819-1879), отац Николе Тесле [Serbian protopresbyter Milutin Tesla (1819-1879) Nikola Tesla father. Manastir Studenica. p. 349. ISBN 978-86-87345-05-8.
- ^ Carlson, Bernard (2015). Tesla: Inventor of Electrical Age. Princet University Press. p. 520. ISBN 978-0691165615.
- ^ Matić, Milovan (2015). Српски прота Милутин Тесла (1819-1879), отац Николе Тесле [Serbian protopresbyter Milutin Tesla (1819-1879) Nikola Tesla father. Manastir Studenica. p. 349. ISBN 978-86-87345-05-8.
- ^ Matić, Milovan (2015). Српски прота Милутин Тесла (1819-1879), отац Николе Тесле [Serbian protopresbyter Milutin Tesla (1819-1879) Nikola Tesla father. Manastir Studenica. p. 349. ISBN 978-86-87345-05-8.
- ^ Carlson, Bernard (2015). Tesla: Inventor of Electrical Age. Princet University Press. p. 520. ISBN 978-0691165615.
- ^ Matić, Milovan (2015). Српски прота Милутин Тесла (1819-1879), отац Николе Тесле [Serbian protopresbyter Milutin Tesla (1819-1879) Nikola Tesla father. Manastir Studenica. p. 349. ISBN 978-86-87345-05-8.
- ^ Matić, Milovan (2015). Српски прота Милутин Тесла (1819-1879), отац Николе Тесле [Serbian protopresbyter Milutin Tesla (1819-1879) Nikola Tesla father. Manastir Studenica. p. 349. ISBN 978-86-87345-05-8.
- ^ Carlson, Bernard (2015). Tesla: Inventor of Electrical Age. Princet University Press. p. 520. ISBN 978-0691165615.
- ^ Matić, Milovan (2015). Српски прота Милутин Тесла (1819-1879), отац Николе Тесле [Serbian protopresbyter Milutin Tesla (1819-1879) Nikola Tesla father. Manastir Studenica. p. 349. ISBN 978-86-87345-05-8.
- ^ Matić, Milovan (2015). Српски прота Милутин Тесла (1819-1879), отац Николе Тесле [Serbian protopresbyter Milutin Tesla (1819-1879) Nikola Tesla father. Manastir Studenica. p. 349. ISBN 978-86-87345-05-8.
- ^ Carlson, Bernard (2015). Tesla: Inventor of Electrical Age. Princet University Press. p. 520. ISBN 978-0691165615.
- ^ Matić, Milovan (2015). Српски прота Милутин Тесла (1819-1879), отац Николе Тесле [Serbian protopresbyter Milutin Tesla (1819-1879) Nikola Tesla father. Manastir Studenica. p. 349. ISBN 978-86-87345-05-8.
- ^ Carlson, Bernard (2015). Tesla: Inventor of Electrical Age. Princet University Press. p. 520. ISBN 978-0691165615.
- ^ Matić, Milovan (2015). Српски прота Милутин Тесла (1819-1879), отац Николе Тесле [Serbian protopresbyter Milutin Tesla (1819-1879) Nikola Tesla father. Manastir Studenica. p. 349. ISBN 978-86-87345-05-8.
- ^ Matić, Milovan (2015). Српски прота Милутин Тесла (1819-1879), отац Николе Тесле [Serbian protopresbyter Milutin Tesla (1819-1879) Nikola Tesla father. Manastir Studenica. p. 349. ISBN 978-86-87345-05-8.
- ^ Carlson, Bernard (2015). Tesla: Inventor of Electrical Age. Princet University Press. p. 520. ISBN 978-0691165615.
- ^ Carlson, Bernard (2015). Tesla: Inventor of Electrical Age. Princet University Press. p. 520. ISBN 978-0691165615.
- ^ Matić, Milovan (2015). Српски прота Милутин Тесла (1819-1879), отац Николе Тесле [Serbian protopresbyter Milutin Tesla (1819-1879) Nikola Tesla father. Manastir Studenica. p. 349. ISBN 978-86-87345-05-8.