Trivunac was born in Aleksinac in 1876, and educated in
Niš, Belgrade,
Munich, and
Leipzig. During the end of the
Great War, Trivunac was the president of the
Serbian National Defense League of America, founded by
Michael Pupin and headquartered at 441 West 22nd Street in New York City. Upon his return to Serbia, he founded the Department of German Language and Literature at the
University of Belgrade and was its first professor there. Also, he was one of the founders of the Serbian
PEN center in 1926. In 1941 when Yugoslavia was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany,
Milan Nedić appointed him Minister of Education in the
Government of National Salvation in Serbia, but he was removed from that position already on 7 October 1941. In 1944 he was arrested and executed by
Yugoslav Partisans in Belgrade together with
Momčilo Janković, Milan Horvatski, Srbislav Dokić, Milan Milovanović, Ranisav Avramović and
Jovan Mijušković and 105 other alleged Serbian collaborators. ==Selected works==