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Dimitrije Konstantinović "Hadži" Rošu (Serbian Cyrillic: Хаџи-Димитрије Константиновић-Рошу; Moskopolje, Ottoman Empire, c. 1780 - Belgrade, Principality of Serbia, 1860) was a wealthy Serbian merchant, financiers and philanthropist of Cincar origin that had settled in Belgrade more than two centuries ago. He and his wife Kalina Hadži Rošu were founders of the National Theatre in Belgrade.[1]
Origin
[edit]Konstantin Rošu was the progenitor of the Belgrade head of the family Dimitrije Konstantinović Rošu, or Dimitrije Hadži Rošu who once lived in the town of Moskopolje in today's Albania, but was forced to flee in the wake of pogroms in that Orthodox town committed by jihadist Turks and their Albanian vassals. After leaving, he found out that he lost several family members.
Biography
[edit]Dimitrije Konstantinović Rošu was born in Moskopolje, then part of the Ottoman Empire (now Albania) around 1780. After the Turkish-Albanian pogrom of the Cincar town of Moskopolje, he lost part of his family while fleeing. He came to Serbia and settled in Belgrade. His surname "Konstantinović" was named after his father Konstantin, and then he found out about his real surname Rošu (Red) later he officially changed it back to the ancient surname. He developed a flourishing manufacturing business in Belgrade, where he had a shop with 24 journeymen.
His success was short-lived when Defenders of the Constitution usurped Mihailo Obrenović, Miloš Obrenović's son. As a friend of the Grand Duke Miloš Obrenović, Rošu was exiled to Turkey with thirteen other Cincar families (Kutula, Antula, Zagla, Kapra, Guša, Luča, Toska...). According to family tradition, their lives were saved by Nula, the second wife of lord Toma Vučić Perišić. As an exile from Belgrade, he went to Thessalonica, from Thessalonica to Trieste and from there to Vienna. In Vienna, he had his portrait taken in the photography studio owned and run by Anastas Jovanović, one of the first world photographers. After the return of Obrenović to power in 1858, he returned to Belgrade, where he died in 1860[2].
His first wife died in Jerusalem, where they were on pilgrimage, hence honorific "Hadži". The second wife, Kalina née Brandembure of Serres, present-day Greece, was related to the Gherman family, bankers and confidential agents of Miloš Obrenović. Kalina and Dimitrije had twelve children.
References
[edit]- Translated and adapted from Serbian Wikipedia: https://sr.wikipedia.org/sr-el/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%88%D1%83
- ^ "Anonymous, Portrait of Kalina Hadži Rošu".
- ^ Vid. D. Popović, O Cincarim, Belgrade 1937, p. 445.