Kosta Hristić


Kosta Hristić was a Serbian lawyer, diplomat, and Minister of Justice.

Biography

Kosta was born in Belgrade. His father Nikola Hristić was a Minister and the Prime Minister of Serbia, and his mother Juliana, born Hadži Jovanović, was a granddaughter of Toma Vučić Perišić.
He finished Terazije elementary school and then high school. He graduated from Belgrade Faculty of Law, and then studied law in Germany and France.
Kosta worked at the court of Valjevo for three years, and then at the Urban Belgrade court. After that, he was Secretary of the Serbian embassy in Constantinople, Consul in Thessaloniki, and chief at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was also a representative of the Kingdom of Serbia in Bucharest, Rome and Vienna, and Minister of Justice in Vladan Đorđević's government.