CROWN PRINCE ALEXANDER AND MEMBERS OF THE ADVISORY BODIES OF THE CROWN EXTEND THEIR CONDOLENCES REGARDING THE PASSING OF PROFESSOR ALEX DRAGNIC

Belgrade, 13 August 2009 – His Royal Highness Crown Prince Alexander II and members of the Advisory Bodies of the Crown announced with great sorrow that Professor Alex Dragnic, member of the Crown Council, member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and the Grand Cross of the Royal Order of the White Eagle passed away on 9 August in Ellicott City, Maryland, United States.

Prof. Dr. Dragnic, who was 97 years old, was Professor emeritus at the University Vanderbilt, a diplomat, publicist and man of great integrity, knowledge and authority. Despite his age, he was quite active and his last book was published in 2004 under the title “Serbia Through Centuries”.

The death of Prof. Dragnic is an enormous lost for our culture, history and the Serbian community, as much as for one in the North American Diaspora as well as to everyone else that new him and had the privilege to be his contemporaries.

We pray the Lord to give him eternal peace.