Background
Veljko Petrović was born in Sombor. His father became an Eastern Orthodox monk, Gerasim Petrović, after his wife died.
Veljko Petrović was born in Sombor. His father became an Eastern Orthodox monk, Gerasim Petrović, after his wife died.
After graduating from high school in his home town, Veljko went to Budapest to study law. From 1906 to 1907 he was co-editor of Croatia, a Croatian-Serbian magazine for social, political and economical studies, founded in Budapest. Because of his nationalistic attitude he was forced to move to Belgrade, where he participated as a war correspondent in both Balkan Wars and World War I, and wrote poetry.
Between the wars he was active in cultural and educational affairs and continued to be so until his death in Belgrade in 1967.
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.