Nikola Hajdin (
Serbian Cyrillic
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: Никола Хајдин; 4 April 1923 – 17 July 2019) was a
Serbian construction engineer, professor and the president of the
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, sr-Cyr, Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the ...
, as a member of the Department of Technical Sciences.
Biography
As a construction engineer, he built many bridges in Yugoslavia; most prominently the
New Railway Bridge in
Belgrade
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and the
Liberty Bridge in
Novi Sad
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. Nikola Hajdin also designed the bridge which was built in 2007 in
Poland
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- the
Solidarity Bridge in
Płock
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over the
Vistula
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The Vistula rises at Barania Góra in ...
river.
Hajdin was professor of 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-b ...
Faculty of Civil Engineering. He held masters and doctoral degrees from the same school (his mentor was professor Jakov Hlitčijev). He was also a member of the
European Academy of Sciences and Arts
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,
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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and other organisations.
Hajdin stated in an interview that the controversial
SANU Memorandum
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was never the official document of the Academy and that it did containt anything malicious.
References
1923 births
2019 deaths
Serbian engineers
University of Belgrade Faculty of Civil Engineering alumni
Academic staff of the University of Belgrade
Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
People from Vrbovsko
Serbs of Croatia
Yugoslav engineers
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