title: Milo Lompar
text: # Milo Lompar
  
  Milo Lompar (Serbian Cyrillic: Мило Ломпар; born 19 April 1962) is a Serbian literary historian, professor at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, writer, president of the Miloš Crnjanski Endowment and former director general of Politika.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Lompar was born in 1962 in Belgrade which at that time was part of Yugoslavia and is of paternal Montenegrin Serb descent. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade (Group for Yugoslav Literature and General Literature). He received his doctorate at the same faculty with a thesis on the historical, poetic and literary heritage of the 18th and 19th centuries in the late works of Miloš Crnjanski before a commission consisting of academician Nikola Milošević, prof. dr. Jovan Deretić and prof. dr. Novica Petković. At the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade, he is a professor of Serbian literature of the 18th and 19th centuries and Cultural history of Serbs. He was the general director of Politika a.d. in the period 2005–2006.
  
  ## Political involvement
  
  As a non-partisan member of the Dveri Political Council, which he joined in 2015 along with Kosta Čavoški, Aleksandar Lipkovski, Vladimir Dimitrijević, Zoran Čvorović and other national conservative oriented intellectuals, he helped the Dveri and Democratic Party of Serbia political coalition win its MPs in the 2016 parliamentary elections. He left the Dveri Political Council in January 2018.
  
  In April 2022, Lompar signed a petition calling for Serbia not to impose sanctions on Russia after it invaded Ukraine.
  
  