Miroslav Marcovich

Miroslav Marcovich (March 18, 1919 – June 14, 2001) was a Serbian-American philologist and university professor.

Early life

Marcovich was born in Belgrade, Serbia. He studied at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy graduating in 1942. In 1943, he served as the assistant to Georg Ostrogorsky, an expert in Byzantine studies. He fought with the Yugoslav Partisans under Josip Broz Tito during World War II between 1944 and 1946. In 1953, he traveled to India where he began working at Visva-Bharati University.

Career

In 1955, he moved to Mérida and worked as a professor of Ancient Greek and philosophy from 1955 to 1962 at the University of the Andes, Venezuela. In 1962, he taught at the University of Bonn invited by Hans Herter. Between 1963 and 1968, he taught at the University of Cambridge. He then moved in 1969 to the University of Illinois, Urbana, where he was the Head of the Department of Classics (1973–77), and taught there until his retirement in 1989.

During those years he was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, University of North Carolina, Trinity College, Dublin, and was an Albert Einstein Visiting Fellow in Tel Aviv.

Marcovich also founded the ''Illinois Classical Studies'' journal, and served as its editor for 12 years.

Works

Marcovich focused his scholarship on textual criticism of philosophical and religious texts, mainly in Greek. He edited Heraclitus' fragments twice during his time in Cambridge, in 1967 (''editio maior'') and 1968 (''editio minor''); the former, he also translated in Italian in 1968 and has been reprinted without alterations in 2017. A prolific author, he published two collections of papers on ancient philosophy and religion—in 1965 and 1988. He had an uncommon breath of interests. At the beginning of his career, he edited the ''Davidiad'' by Marko Marulić (1957) and the Latin poems by Dalmatian poet and humanist Franjo Božičević (1958), both in first edition, and translated (in Spanish) and commented the ''Bhagavadgītā'', one of the holy scriptures of Hinduism (1958). In 1985 he published a monograph on Greek tragic trimeter, and some years later two collection of studies on Greek poetry (1991) and on textual criticism of Patristic texts (1994).

Starting from his time in Cambridge, he became increasingly interested in Greek philosophy and Christianity, contributing to the Pauly-Wissowa with a monographic article on Heraclitus (1965) and editing, in addition to the aforementioned Heraclitus, Hippolytus' treatise "Refutation of All Heresies" (1968). He remained prolific in his late years after retirement, producing a long series of critical editions, mainly of Christian authors: Prosper of Aquitaine ("De providentia Dei", 1989), Athenagoras of Athens ("Legatio pro Christianis", 1990; "De resurrectione mortuorum" p. 2000), Iustinus ("Cohortatio ad Graecos", "De monarchia" and "Oratio ad Graecos" ll sp. 1990; "Apologiae pro Christianis", 1994; "Dialogus cum Tryphone", 1997), Tatian ("Oratio ad Graecos", 1995), Theophilus of Antiochia ("Ad Autolycum", 1995), Origen ("Contra Celsum", 2001) and Clement of Alexandria ("Paedagogus", 2002 osthumous. At the same time, he edited and commented the Alcestis Barcinoensis (1988) and produced three Teubner editions: Theodore Prodromos' "De Rhodante et Dosiclis amoribus" (1992), Diogenes Laërtius' "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" (2-volumes set, 1999, which included unpublished Byzantine paraphrases; Hans Gärtner edited a volume of indexes in 2002) and Eustathios Makrembolites' "De Hysmines et Hysminiae amoribus libri XI" (2001 osthumous.

During his lifetime Marcovich wrote and edited more than 30 books (not including the various issues of ''Illinois Classical Studies'') and wrote 253 articles and essays in Spanish, German, Latin, Italian, French and Serbo-Croatian.

Personal

Marcovich died on 14 June, 2001 at the Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana, Illinois.

Selected works

Entries followed by ��are posthumous. Marcovich's full bibliography, except for critical editions nos. 24 ad 25, can be read in:

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* The original publication's title wrongly reads "Marcovivh".

Critical editions

Entry no. 6 is an Italian translation of no. 5; no. 25 is a reprint of no. 6.

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References

Sources

*Fernando Báez, "Una Semblanza de Miroslav Marcovich" in Miroslav Marcovich, ''Bhagavadgita: El Canto del Señor'' (Mérida: ULA 2003).

See also

*Sator Square, a subject Marcovich wrote papers on

External links

List of Marcovich's publications at the University of Illinois
(Originally published in ''Illinois Classical Studies'' 18:1993, pp. 1-17).
Blagoje Pantelich, Dijak Miroslav (in Serbian)

{{DEFAULTSORT:Marcovich, Miroslav
1919 births
2001 deaths
Writers from Belgrade
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy alumni
University of Michigan faculty
University of the Andes (Venezuela) faculty
Expatriates in Venezuela
Expatriates in the United Kingdom
Yugoslav emigrants to the United States