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Mihajlo Grujević (Serbian Cyrillic: Михајло Грујевић; Ruma, then part of Habsburg Monarchy, 1780 - Belgrade, Principality of Serbia, 1845) is the nom de guerre of Mihajlo Filipović, brother of Teodor Filipović, and participant of the First Serbian Uprising as secretary of the Governing State Council from 1807 until 1913.

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Mihajlo Filipović was born in the town of Ruma in Srem then part of the territories of the Habsburg dynasty, in 1780. He attended schools in Sopron, SzegedBratislava and studied law in Austria at the University of Vienna. After graduation, he went with his older brother Božidar (also known by the Latin version of Teodor Filipović) to the newly-built university in Russia -- the National University of Kharkiv (1804) -- where Teodor received tenure-ship as professor]] of Legal history. In 1805 upon hearing Karađorđe's plans for Ottoman Serbia from Matija Nenadović and his delegation, who were sent by Karađorđe to Kharkiv to meet Atanasije Stojković and Teodor Filipović, and then to go to St. Petersburg to discuss with state officials Serbia's plan of action. But before leaving Kharkiv, Teodor Filipović resigned his post as a university professor, the two brothers took their respective nom de guerre, Božidar Grujević and Mihajlo Grujević, and left for Serbia via St. Petersburg with Nenadović and his retinue ready to fight the Turks. When his brother Božidar died of consumption in 1807 in Belgrade, Karađorđe appointed Mihajlo as first secretary of Praviteljstvujušči sovjet, translated the Governing State Council.[1]

Mihajlo Grujević remained as secretary in the Council until the capitulation of Karađorđe's Serbia in 1813. Like the rest of high officials, he was forced to flee to Austria where he lived there for a few years and corresponded with freedom-fighters elsewhere. In 1817, he was in Ada, then part of Hungary (Habsburg Monarchy), where he corresponded with Pop Nenadović.

In 1842, he was already married and had two sons, Vasa and Sima, living in Belgrade as a member of the Judiciary.[2]

Mihajlo Filipović (aka Grujević) died in 1845.

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