Dimitrije Bogdanović ( sr, Димитрије Богдановић; October 11, 1930 in

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– June 14, 1986 in Belgrade) was a Serbian historian and member 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 ...

. He is considered one of leading scholars on Serbian medieval literature. Bogdanović concentrated on the history of medieval Serbian principalities and history of the

Serbian Orthodox Church The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian denomination, Christian churches. The majori ...

during the Middle Ages. In 1978 Bogdanović became corresponding member of the Serbian Academy, in 1985 regular member.

Criticism

According to the Serbian historian Olivera Milosavljević, Bogdanović has spread negative image of

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with a claim that Albanian political movement is "aggressive, conquering, revanchist, conservative and nationalistic", whose goals are to destroy the Serbian nation "by expelling, killing or erasing the historical consciousness", and all with the aim to appropriate Serbian territories. According to him, thesis about Illyrian origin of Albanians is "racist" because it determines priority right to the territories.

Works

(Incomplete list) * Историја српског народа I-X: Од досељавања на Балкан до 1918. године / Istorija srpskog naroda I-X: Od doseljavanja na Balkan do 1918. godine (''History of Serbian Nation I-X: Since arrival to the Balkans to the year 1918''), group of authors, first volume published in 1981 * Књига о Косову / Knjiga o Kosovu (''The Book on

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''), 1986
online
.

References

Sources

External links

Biography at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts website
(in Serbian)
Biography of Dimitrije Bogdanović
(in Serbian)
Bogdanovic's text on Kosovo
(in English) 1930 births 1986 deaths 20th-century Serbian historians Serbian nationalists Scholars in Eastern Orthodoxy Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Serbian theologians Members of the Serbian Orthodox Church {{Serbia-academic-bio-stub