Aleksandar Ugrenović (6 November 1883 – 19 November 1958) was a university professor in
forestry
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from Croatia and Yugoslavia and a member of the
Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Ugrenović was born in
Petrinja
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On December 29, 2020, the town was hit by a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 , causing ...
(then
Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia
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). He graduated from the Faculty of Forestry (1904) and the Faculty of Philosophy (1907) of the
University of Zagreb. He attained a
doctoral degree
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from the Faculty of Philosophy in 1907. In the 1907–21 period he worked as a forester in
Osijek
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,
Slatina and
Pakrac.
Between 1921 and 1956, with a brief hiatus during the
World War II
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(1941–45), he was a full-time professor at the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry in Zagreb in "use of forests for trade and wood industry" and "forest politics". He joined
JAZU
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HAZU was founded under patronage of the Croatian bishop Jo ...
in 1948. He was also a member of the JAZU presidency, secretary of the Natural Science Department and the commissioner of the Forestry Section in the Yugoslav Academy.
Between 1925 and 1929 he edited ''
Å umarski list
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It was established in October 1876 and is published by the Croatian Forestry Society.
See also
* List of forestry jou ...
'' (''Forestry Magazine'') and for a while also edited magazine ''Prirodoslovna istraživanja JA'' (''Investigations of nature by the Yugoslav Academy''). He initiated and later became the editor in chief of the ''Forestry Encyclopedia'' of the
Yugoslav Lexicographical Institute
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in Zagreb.
He was a member of several international forestry organizations, such as
Silva Mediterranea (Rome, 1922),
Commission internationale d'agriculture (Paris, 1923),
Institut internationale d'agriculture (Rome, 1934) and
Union internationale des instituts de recherches forestieres (Stockholm, 1936).
Aleksandar Ugrenović died in
Zagreb
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, at the time in
SR Croatia.
Sources
Ugrenović, Aleksandar
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Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb alumni
Croatian foresters
Academic staff of the University of Zagreb
Forestry academics
1883 births
1958 deaths
People from Petrinja
Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Forestry researchers