Summary
A priest and astronomer who connected the Blaca Hermitage with international astronomical research. He was the community’s last superior and founded its observatory.
In 1926, he installed a large telescope at Blaca and studied the orbits of celestial bodies.
Arrival from Poljica
Miličević was born in Zvečanje and came as a boy to the Blaca Hermitage with his uncle, Nikola Miličević senior. After his schooling and ordination, he studied astronomy in Vienna. He took over the administration of Blaca in 1923.
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The observatory and collaboration
In 1926, he installed a large telescope known as the Brenner telescope at Blaca. He studied celestial mechanics, orbital calculations and astronomical instruments, and maintained ties with observatories around the world. Books and journals reached the island as part of a real exchange of scientific knowledge.
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The legacy of the last superior
His work left telescopes, a specialist library and a network of correspondence in a place far from major cities. He received some of his astronomy books from the Viennese professor Edmund Weiss. He died in 1963, and the asteroid Miličević bears his name. Today, the museum at Blaca preserves traces of this combination of religious life and science.
