Svetislav Mandić ( sr-Cyrl, Светислав Мандић; 8 March 1921 – 4 October 2003) was a Yugoslav and Serbian historian, copier, fresco conserver, poet and painter.

Life

He was born on March 8, 1921, in

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(now

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). He finished the gymnasium in his town in 1939, and then finished the

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in capital Belgrade in 1950. He started with poetry in his gymnasium days, and as a student published poems in various papers and newspapers. In his adult years he began his work on cultural monuments of the history of the Serbs and he published many works on that theme, due to which he was awarded the

Order of St. Sava The Royal Order of St. Sava is an Order of merit, first awarded by the Kingdom of Serbia in 1883 and later by the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. It was awarded to nationals and foreigners for meritorious ach ...

class I.

Books

*"Dvojica", pesme (zajedno sa Velimirom Kovačevićem, Mostar 1940), *"Kad mlidijah živeti", mladalačka elegija ("Novo pokolenje", Beograd 1952), *"Milosno doba", pesme ("Prosveta", Beograd 1960), *"The Virgin's Church at Studenica" (1966) *"Drevnik", zapisi konzervatora ("Slovo ljubve", Beograd 1975), *"Crte i reze", fragmenti starog imenika ("Slovo ljubve", Beograd 1981), *"Rozeta na Resavi", pletenije slovesa o Ravanici i Manasiji ("Bagdala", Kruševac 1986), *"Velika gospoda sve srpske zemlje" i drugi prosopografski prilozi ("Srpska književna zadruga", Beograd 1986), *"Carski čin Stefana Nemanje", činjenice i pretpostavke o srpskom srednjovekovlju ("Srpska književna zadruga", Beograd 1990), *"Pesme", izbor ("Veselin Maslesa", Sarajevo 1990), *"Zvezdara i druge pesme", ("Srpska književna zadruga", Beograd 1995),

External links

Translated works by Svetislav Mandić

References

* 1921 births 2003 deaths 20th-century Serbian painters 20th-century Serbian poets 20th-century Serbian historians Serbian male poets Bosnia and Herzegovina painters Bosnia and Herzegovina poets Yugoslav historians Yugoslav painters Yugoslav poets Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Writers from Mostar University of Arts in Belgrade alumni Artists from Mostar Serbian male painters 20th-century Serbian male artists {{Serbia-painter-stub