Ljubomir Maksimović (

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, November 27, 1938), Serbian Byzantologist.

Life

Maksimović got his BA (1961), MA (1965) and PhD (1971) in history at the Faculty of Philosophy of

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. At the same faculty he became an assistant in 1961, assistant professor in 1971, associated professor in 1978, professor in 1986 and, finally, the chair of the department for

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history. From 1978 to 1980 he was the president of the Serbian Association of Historians. 1994-1996 he was the dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade. From 1996 he is the vice president of the

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. In 1998 he became also director of the Institute for Byzantine Studies of the

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. He worked as a visiting professor in

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(Paris),

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für europäische Rechtsgeschichte (Frankfurt/Main),

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and

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. Maksimović won a number awards for his achievements including the City of Belgrade Award (1973), Scientific Medal of Sofia University (1989),

Vladimir Ćorović Vladimir Ćorović ( sr-cyrl, Владимир Ћоровић; 27 October 1885 – 12 April 1941) was a Serbian historian, university professor, author, and academic. His bibliography consists of more than 1000 works. Several of his books on the ...

prize for the achievements in

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(2011).

Selected bibliography

* * ''The Historical Atlas of Eastern and Western Christian Monasticism'', Liturgical Pr, 2003. * ''Град у Визатији: Огледи о друштву позновизантијског доба'', Плато, 2003. * ''The Byzantine Provincial Administration Under the Paloiologoi'', Adolf Hakkert, 1988

References

* https://web.archive.org/web/20150210155639/http://www.byzantineinstitute.com/eng/uploaded/biography/Lj._Maksimovic_Biografija_En.pdf (broken link) * http://www.sanu.ac.rs/Clanstvo/Clan.aspx?arg=1052 Living people 1938 births 20th-century Serbian historians Serbian Byzantinists Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts {{Serbia-historian-stub Scholars of Byzantine history Corresponding Members of the Academy of Athens (modern) University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy alumni Academic staff of the University of Belgrade Academic staff of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences Max Planck Institutes researchers Academic staff of the Technical University of Cologne Academic staff of the University of Crete 21st-century Serbian historians