出版社：Society for Microwave Technique, Technologies and Systems, Serbia and Montenegro IEEE MTT-S Chapter
摘要：Michael Pupin was born on October 9, 1854, in Idvor, "a little village that cannot be found on any map", as described in his biography From Immigrant to Inventor. When Pupin was a boy Idvor was part of so-called Military Frontier, belonged to Austria-Hungary, and later became a part of the kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. At the Paris peace conference, in 1919, the Rumanians claimed this province, but they could not overcome the fact that the population of Banat, particularly that where Idvor is located, is Serb. The settled Serbs were technically Austrian subjects but were allowed to retain their language and customs. The reason for establishing the Military Frontier can be traced back towards the end of the seventeenth century when the Austrian Empire was harassed by Turkish invasions that advanced as far as Vienna. Then the Polish king Sobiesky had come to the rescue of Vienna. It was at that time that Emperor Leopold I, of Austria, invited the Serb Patriarch of Pech, in old Serbia, to move with thirty-five thousand families of the old Serbia into the Austrian territory north of Sava and Danube rivers, to become guardians. In 1960 the Patriarch moved into Austria and settled the accompanying families on the northern banks of the two rivers. Upon this occasion an agreement with Emperor Leopold I was recorded in an Austrian document called Privilegia. According to this documents the Serbs of the military frontiers were to enjoy a spiritual, economic and political autonomy. Serbs maintained their own schools and their own churches, and each village elected its own local administration. Pupin's father was several times head of the administration called the Knez
