Antonije Anta Aleksić

Antonije Anta Aleksić was a hydrologist, military geographer and publicist, and an engineering officer. He was a member of the Committee on the Sciences of Mathematics ; and an honorary member of the Serbian Learned Society.
As a military geographer and cartographer, he made a plan for the surrounding area of Belgrade based on his own recordings on a scale of 1:50.000. He also surveyed and recorded the Morava valley, that is from Bagrdan to Kruševac at a scale of 1:200.000. One of his first works concerning cartographic development contains a discussion called Građa za kartografiju i geografiju Srbije. It was published in 1883 by Годишњица Николе Чупића or better yet the Nikola Čupić Annual Edition. In his work Мачва, са нарочитим погледом на поплавне прилике са географском картом, 1891, Aleksić also submitted the first Hydrographic Map of the Mačva, for the melioration and hydro technics purposes. The map shows meandering river flows, meanders, still waters, wetlands, and drainage of the terrain.
As an early Serbian hydrologists, he studied the waters in the March, situated along the Pannonian rivers, the Danube, Sava and the Tisa. Anta Aleksić made significant and remarkable contributions to the development of hydrology along with others who preceded him, notably Jovan Stefanović Vilovski and David Pešić.

Works

1865-1866: Plan okoline Beograda 1:50.000. Beograd
1876: Morava, njeno sadašnje stanje i mogućnost plovidbe, Glasnik Srpskog učenog društva ;
1882: Mačvanska blatišta, Godišnjica Nikola Čupić ;
1883: Građa za kartografiju i geografiju Srbije, Godišnjica Nikola Čupić ;
1891: Mačva sa naročitim pogledom na poplavne prilike , Glasnik Srpskog učenog društva.