Jovan Deretić ( sr-Cyrl, Јован Деретић; 22 January 1934 – 16 June 2002) was a Serbian historian and author of Serbian literary history.
His work ''Istorija Srpske književnosti'' (1983) is the standard work in Serbian literary history.
He is sometimes confused with pseudohistorian
Jovan I. Deretić.
Deretić was born in the village of Orahovac near
Trebinje
Trebinje ( sr-Cyrl, Требиње, ) is a city and municipality located in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the southernmost city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and is situated on the banks of Trebišnjica river in the r ...
on 22 January 1934.
He completed
gymnasium high school in Trebinje and
Vrbas and graduated from the
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade in 1958.
He completed his doctoral degree in Belgrade as well in 1965 with a thesis under the title "Composition of the
Gorski Vijenac".
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Serbian literary historians
20th-century Serbian historians
2002 deaths
1934 births
People from Trebinje
Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina