Šefik Bešlagić (6 April 1908 – 19 November 1990) was a cultural historian from Yugoslavia. From 1953 to 1967 Šefik Bešlagić was the director of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of

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. He explored the medieval necropolis of marble or '' Stećci''. He was a historian of material culture, especially of stones ('' Stećci'', ''nišani'', ''čatrnje'', ''stolice'').

Biography

Bešlagić was born in the town of Gornja

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in 1908. His mother Devleta (''née'' Mulalić) was a housewife, while his father Agan was a teacher. Šefik Bešlagić was educated in Tuzla,

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and

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, before teaching in

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and

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Historiography

Nada Miletić Nada Miletić (1925 - 2002Fekeža, Lidija"Nada Miletić (1925-2002)."''Godišnjak Centra za balkanološka ispitivanja'' 34 (2005): 309-310.) was a Bosnian medievalist, art historian and archaeologist, who was a scientific expert at the National M ...

and Alojz Benac dated the phenomenon of the

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to the thirteenth century, but this dating has been debated, in particular by Bešlagić and

Dubravko Lovrenović Dubravko Lovrenović (30 August 1956 – 17 January 2017) was Bosnian and Herzegovinian medievalist, author and essayist, who worked at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Sarajevo, Department of History, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzego ...

, who date the tombstones to the mid-twelfth century.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Beslagic, Sefik 1908 births 1990 deaths Writers from Tuzla Cultural historians Yugoslav historians Yugoslav medievalists