Jovan Erdeljanović (11 November 1874 – 12 February 1944) was a
Serbian and
Yugoslav ethnologist
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.
Biography
Jovan Erdeljanović was born in
Pančevo,
Austria-Hungary
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. He studied at the universities of
Vienna
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Berlin
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,
Leipzig
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and
Prague
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. In 1905 he obtained his doctorate as
Doctor of Philosophy
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at
Charles University in Prague
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. In 1906, Erdeljanović began working at the
University of Belgrade
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Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-ba ...
, elected Professor at
Department of Ethnology of the philosophical Faculty since 1922. He remained at the University until 1941 and was member of
Serbian Academy of Sciences
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.
The first recognized work of
anthropological
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interest in ethnicity was done by Erdeljanović, named as one of the founding fathers of Serbian ethnology. His works are influenced by ideas of
evolutionism
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and
Yugoslavism
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and he represented the theory that
Yugoslavs
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are people of one blood and one origin.
Selected works
*''Etnološka građa i rasprave'', Srpska kraljevska akademija, Belgrade 1911.
* ''Tragovi najstarijeg slovenskog sloja u Banatu'', Niederlův sbornik, Prague 1925.
*
* ''O poreklu
Bunjevaca'', Srpska kraljevska akademija, Belgrade 1930.
*''Forschungen über Alter, Organisation und Überlieferungen serbischer Stämme in Montenegro, Herzegovina und in den Nachbargebieten Jugoslawiens'', Brill,
Leiden
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1936.
* ''Koju ćemo kulturu: samo srpsku ili jugoslovensku?'', Zora, Belgrade 1938.
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See also
*
Sima Trojanović
Sima Trojanović (Šabac, Serbia, 2 February 1862 – Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 21 November 1935) was a Serbian
ethnologist and the first university-trained anthropologist, director of the Ethnographic Museum, Belgrade, university professo ...
*
Tihomir Đorđević
Tihomir Đorđević (Knjaževac, Principality of Serbia, 19 February 1868 — Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 28 May 1944) was a Serbian ethnologist, folklorist, cultural historian and professor at the University of Belgrade.
Biography
He rece ...
*
Ljubomir Davidović
Ljubomir Davidović (24 December 1863 – 19 February 1940) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who served as prime minister (1919–1920 and 1924) of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later called Yugoslavia).
Biography
Davidovi ...
References
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1874 births
1944 deaths
Writers from Pančevo
Yugoslav zoologists
University of Belgrade faculty
Belgrade Higher School faculty
Charles University alumni
Charles University faculty
Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
20th-century Serbian people
Ethnologists
Serbian studies