Stanoje Stanojević

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1902 photograph.

Stanoje Stanojević (Serbian Cyrillic: Станоје Станојевић; 1874 in Novi Sad – 1937 in Belgrade) was a Serbian historian, university professor, academic and a leader of many scientific and publishing enterprises.

Career

Stanojević finished university studies in Belgrade's

Sankt Petersburg, where he taught at the university as a visiting professor. From 1917, he lectured at Sorbonne and at the University of London. After the war, in 1919, Stanojević resumed his chair as professor of National History at the University of Belgrade
until 1937, the time of his death.

He was a broadly cultured man of many interests, he had profound knowledge of history, knew Latin, Greek, Old Church Slavonic and major European languages. His basic orientation was mediaeval history of Serbia and the Serbian lands, primarily the early Middle Ages and the time of the

Byzantine empire
, from the beginning of the 20th century, almost completely ceased in his later years, with the significant exception of his fruitful Serbian diplomatic studies, which also included the Byzantine component.

He was also the editor of the first Popular Serbian-Croatian-Slovenian Encyclopaedia published by the Bibliographical Institute in Zagreb.[1] Stanojević organized himself and initiated the establishment of historic societies. He was a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and a corresponding member of science academies in Bucharest, Prague and Munich.

Works

Stanojević wrote many books about history of Serbia and history of the Serbs, including:

  • Byzantium and the Serbs ("Vizantija i Srbi")
  • Saint Sava ("Sveti Sava")
  • Stefan Lazarević's biography ("Biografija Stefana Lazarevića od Konstantina filozofa")
  • Studies on Serbian diplomacy ("Studije o srpskoj diplomatici")
  • World War 1 serbia
  • History of the Serbian People ("Istorija srpskog naroda")
  • About South Slavs in the 6th, 7th, 8th centuries ("O Južnim Slovenima u VI, VII, VIII veku")
  • From our past ("Iz naše prošlosti"), 1934

He also organized and arranged the "Great National Encyclopedia of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes" ("Velika Narodna enciklopedija Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca"), which was the first work of the kind written in Serbian language.

References

  1. Slavic and East-European Studies
    . 9 (1/2). Canadian Association of Slavists.
  • Stanoje Stanojević. Istorija srpskog naroda, Beograd, 2009
  • Jovan Mirosavljević, Brevijar ulica Novog Sada 1745-2001, Novi Sad, 2002

External links

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