Jovan Radonić (9 February 1873, Mol,

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— 25 November 1956,

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) was a

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, librarian of

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library and member of the

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Biography

Radonić graduated from the

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, where he studied under the tutelage of

Konstantin Jireček Konstantin Josef Jireček (24 July 1854 10 January 1918) was an Austro-Hungarian Czech historian, politician, diplomat, and Slavist. He was the founder of Bohemian Balkanology (or Balkan Studies) and Byzantine studies, and wrote extensively on ...

and Vatroslav Jagić, and attended seminars given by

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. In 1905, he taught at the

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade () is a public university, public research university in Belgrade, 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 me ...

. In 1948 he joined the staff of the Institute of History of the Serbian Academy of Sciences. Radonić, a Slavist and Byzantinist, devoted his research to Balkan medieval history. He translated into Serbian and expanded Jireček’s History of the Serbs (vols. 1–4, Belgrade, 1922–25; 2nd ed., Belgrade, 1952). He dedicated his first book to Ilarion Ruvarac who established critical approach of Serbian historiography. In his work ''Đurađ Kastriot Skenderbeg i Arbanija u XV veku'' he had collected major documentary and literary sources about

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Selected works

* * * * * * * * * (In Serbian) ''Rimska kurija i južnoslovenske zemlje of XVI do XIX veka'' (Roman Curia and South-Slavic lands from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries), Belgrade, Srpska akademija nauka, 1950 * (in Serbian) ''Ogledalo sveta ili Istroija Mehmeda Nešrije'' (The Mirror of the World or the History of

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), Belgrade, Naučna knjiga, 1957

References

External links

Short biography
of Jovan Radonić on the web site of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts {{DEFAULTSORT:Radonic, Jovan 1873 births 1956 deaths 20th-century Serbian historians Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Historians from Austria-Hungary Yugoslav historians