Haralampije Polenaković (

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, 17 January 1909 –

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15 February 1984), was a Yugoslav and

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and lexicographer. Polenaković was born into ethnic

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family in the town of

, which was then part of the

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. He graduated from Philosophical Faculty in

and then continued his studies in

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where he obtained a PhD. During the Bulgarian occupation of Yugoslav Macedonia during WWII, he escaped to

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where he founded the "Society of Refugees from South Serbia". After the War Polenaković worked as a professor at the Philosophical Faculty in Skopje. He is credited as one of the founders of literary history of Macedonia. His fields of research included medieval literature, 19th century literature as well as ties of Macedonian, Serbian and Croatian literatures.Радомир В. Ивановић, ''Историјско-књижевни прилози Харалампија Поленаковића о Доситеју Обрадовићу, Вуку Стеф. Караџићу и Петру II Петровићу Његошу'', Зборник Матице српске за књижевност и језик 1996, vol. 44, nr. 1-3, pp. 19-32 Polenaković became one of the first members of the

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. Together with Blaže Koneski he edited the Macedonian edition of the Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia. Polenaković's collected works in five volumes were published in 1973.

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* Hrvatska enciklopedija http://www.enciklopedija.hr/Natuknica.aspx?ID=49102 {{DEFAULTSORT:Polenakovic, Haralampije Yugoslav historians Lexicographers 1909 births 1984 deaths People from Gostivar 20th-century lexicographers