Božidar Ferjančić ( sr-cyr, Божидар Ферјанчић; 17 February 1929 – 28 June 1998)
was a
Serbia
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n historian, a specialist in medieval Serbian history and the later
Byzantine
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...
empire. He was member of the
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, sr-Cyr, Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the ...
.
Biography
Ferjančić was born in Belgrade, at the time part of the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Kraljevina Jugoslavija, Краљевина Југославија; sl, Kraljevina Jugoslavija) was a state in Southeast Europe, Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 unt ...
. Ferjančić graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Philosophy at the
University of Belgrade
The University of Belgrade ( sr, / ) is a public university in Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia.
Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-b ...
in History in 1953 and after additional study at the same university, he received his doctorate in 1960
with a dissertation entitled ''Despots in Byzantium and the Lands of the South Slavs''.
He then taught at the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Philosophy. He advanced rapidly and in 1965 was made associate professor and in 1970 professor.
In 1973 he assumed the chairmanship of the Institute for Byzantine Studies after
George Ostrogorsky
Georgiy Aleksandrovich Ostrogorskiy (russian: Георгий Александрович Острогорский; 19 January 1902 – 24 October 1976), known in Serbian as Georgije Aleksandrovič Ostrogorski ( sr-Cyrl, Георгије Алекс ...
's retirement, a post Ferjančić occupied until his death in 1998. In 1977 he became the director of the institute, a post held by Ostrogorsky before he died in 1976. Ferjančić was made corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1978 and a regular member in 1988.
He died on 28 June (''
Vidovdan
Vidovdan ( sr-cyr, Видовдан, lit. "Saint Vitus Day") is a Serbian national and religious holiday, a ''slava'' (feast day) celebrated on 28 June (Gregorian calendar), or 15 June according to the Julian calendar. The Serbian Church desi ...
'') in Belgrade.
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References
20th-century Serbian historians
Serbian Byzantinists
University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy alumni
1929 births
1998 deaths
Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Balkan studies
Serbian medievalists
Yugoslav historians
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Scholars of Byzantine history