Dušan D. Vuksan ( sr-cyr, Душан Д. Вуксан; 3. July 1881,

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– 24. December 1944,

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) was a Serbian

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, editor and prominent representative of Montenegrin

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during the interwar period.

Biography

Dušan D.

Vuksan Vuksan ( sr-cyr, Вуксан) is a Slavic masculine given name, derived from Slavic noun '' vuk'', "wolf". It is a hypocoristic, possibly of the name ''Vukoslav''. It is attested in the Middle Ages, and Serbian epic poetry. It is also used as a sur ...

was born in

, a very small village in the

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. He studied

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and

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at the

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. After graduation, Vuksan started a pedagogical career and gained first professional experience at a school in

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for a couple of years. He taught

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and Serbian respectively. In 1910, he was appointed

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at the Gymnasium in

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. Three years later, he was promoted to

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of the Gymnasium in

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. After the end of World War I in the balcans, he continued to work as headmaster of the Gymnasium in

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. In the early 1920s, he was appointed

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of the Department for Education of Zetska

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. In 1926, he reached the height of his career when he was appointed director of the

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in Cetinje. After ten years of work at museum, he retired and moved to Belgrade, where he lived until his death. Vuksan's scientific achievement was the systematic search, analysis, collection, compilation and publication of historical

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from many

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and

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Montenegro ) , image_map = Europe-Montenegro.svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Podgorica , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , official_languages = M ...

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and

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. He was the editor of the scientific journal ''Zapisi'' from 1927 to 1941. Many of his articles have also been published in other

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of this time.

Bibliography (selection)

*''Spisak ktitora i priložnika manastira Cetinjskog'' (List of Founders and

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of the

Cetinje Monastery The Cetinje Monastery ( sr, Цетињски манастир, Cetinjski manastir) is a monastery of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro. It is located in Cetinje and is the seat of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro. A center of historical ...

), Cetinje 1927 *''Dolazak Sima Milutinovića u Crnu Goru'' (Arrival of

Sima Milutinović Sima Milutinović ( sr-cyr, Сима Милутиновић, 12 July 1899 – 11 December 1981), was a Yugoslav mechanical engineer and a professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Belgrade, the most prolific Yugosla ...

in Montenegro), Cetinje 1931. *''Vjerovanje u vampire'' (The Belief in

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), Belgrade 1931. *''Pedeset godina Cetijnske gimnazije: 1880/81-1930/31'' (Fifty Years of Cetinje's Gymnasium: 1880/81-1930/31), Cetinje 1932. *''Zapisi i natpisi Peći i Cetinja'' (Documents and Inscriptions of Peć and Cetinje),

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1935. *'' Metropolit crnogorski Petar I i

Atanasije Stojković Atanasije Stojković (September 20, 1773 in Ruma, Austrian Empire – September 25, 1832 in Kharkov, Imperial Russia) was a Serbian, Austrian and Russian writer, pedagogue, scholar, physicist, mathematician and astronomer of Serb origin. He is con ...

'', Belgrade 1935. *Crnogorske finansije u XVII. i XIX. vijeku: 1723-1883 (Montenegrin Finances in the 18th and 19th Century: 1723-1883), Cetinje 1936. *''Petar I. Petrović Njegoš i njegovo doba'' (

Petar I Petrović-Njegoš Petar I Petrović-Njegoš (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар I Петровић Његош; 1748 – 31 October 1830) was the ruler of the Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro as the Metropolitan (''vladika'') of Cetinje, and Exarch (legate) of the Serbi ...

and His Times), Cetinje 1951.Dušan Vuksan i
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References

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