Miodrag Rajičić ( sr-cyr, Миодраг Рајичић; February 14, 1898—November 23, 1977) was a Yugoslav Serbian historian. He was an editor for the
Sveznanje Encyclopaedia.
Life
Early life
He was born on February 14, 1898, in
Veliko Gradište
Veliko Gradište ( sr-cyr, Велико Градиште, ; ro, Grădiștea Mare) is a town and municipality located in the Braničevo District of the eastern Serbia. It is situated the right bank of the Danube river and left bank of the Pek ri ...
,
Kingdom of Serbia (today's
Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungar ...
). He attended school in his hometown and then in
Smederevo
Smederevo ( sr-Cyrl, Смедерево, ) is a city and the administrative center of the Podunavlje District in eastern Serbia. It is situated on the right bank of the Danube, about downstream of the Serbian capital, Belgrade.
According to ...
and
Požarevac
Požarevac ( sr-cyr, Пожаревац, ) is a city and the administrative centre of the Braničevo District in eastern Serbia. It is located between three rivers: Danube, Great Morava and Mlava and below the hill Čačalica (208m). As of 2011 ...
, while his final classes and
matura
or its translated terms (''Mature'', ''Matur'', , , , , , ) is a Latin name for the secondary school exit exam or "maturity diploma" in various European countries, including Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, C ...
was in the Serb gymnasium in
Nice
Nice ( , ; Niçard dialect, Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department in France. The Nice urban unit, agg ...
,
France
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. He studied at the philosophical faculties of the universities of
Auvergne (Clermont-Ferrand), and
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
, while he graduated at the
Philosophical Faculty in Belgrade in 1922.
Professor
Miodrag Rajičić became a professor in 1929. He worked as an official in the Ministry of Finance from 1920, then he was a temporary teacher in
Aleksinac
Aleksinac ( sr-Cyrl, Алексинац) is a town and municipality located in the Nišava District of southern Serbia. According to 2011 census, the town has a population of 17,978 inhabitants, while the municipality has 51,863 inhabitants.
Hi ...
,
Šabac
Šabac (Serbian Cyrillic: Шабац, ) is a city and the administrative centre of the Mačva District in western Serbia. The traditional centre of the fertile Mačva region, Šabac is located on the right banks of the river Sava. , the city ...
,
Novi Pazar
Novi Pazar ( sr-cyr, Нови Пазар, lit. "New Bazaar"; ) is a city located in the Raška District of southwestern Serbia. As of the 2011 census, the urban area has 66,527 inhabitants, while the city administrative area has 100,410 inhabit ...
,
Dubrovnik
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,
Kragujevac and
Kavadar. He taught at the State Trade Academy, which became the
First Economical School in Belgrade from 1928 until his retirement in 1958.
He wrote several books on history and geography for high school, and translated French works, and was an editor for the
Sveznanje (''Omniscience'') Encyclopaedia. Of his acclaimed historiographical work are the discussions on the topic of
Medieval Serbian history, notably ''Osnovno jezgro države Dejanovića'' (1952) and ''Sevastokrator Dejan'' (1953), which are about the
Serbian magnate Dejan who served
Emperor
An emperor (from la, imperator, via fro, empereor) is a monarch, and usually the sovereignty, sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife (empress consort), ...
Stefan Dušan
Stefan Uroš IV Dušan ( sr-Cyrl, Стефан Урош IV Душан, ), known as Dušan the Mighty ( sr, / ; circa 1308 – 20 December 1355), was the King of Serbia from 8 September 1331 and Tsar (or Emperor) and autocrat of the Serbs, Gre ...
(r. 1331–55) as ''
despot'', and Emperor
Uroš V __NOTOC__
Uroš ( sr-Cyrl, Урош) is a South Slavic given or last name primarily spread amongst Serbs, and Slovenians (mostly of Serbian descent). This noun has been interpreted as "lords", because it usually appears in conjunction with ''velmõ ...
(r. 1355–71) as ''
sevastokrator
''Sebastokrator'' ( grc-byz, Σεβαστοκράτωρ, Sevastokrátor, August Ruler, ; bg, севастократор, sevastokrator; sh, sebastokrator), was a senior court title in the late Byzantine Empire. It was also used by other rulers wh ...
'', and was the progenitor of the
Dejanović noble family, with his two sons, ''despot''
Jovan and ''gospodin''
Konstantin
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becoming powerful in the
fall of the Serbian Empire. He was one of the authors of ''Memorandum of the First Economical School in Belgrade'' (1956).
He died on November 23, 1977, in
Belgrade.
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External links
WorldCat databaseIstorijska Biblioteka article
1898 births
1977 deaths
20th-century Serbian historians
Yugoslav historians
People from Veliko Gradište
Serbian economists
University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology alumni
Yugoslav economists
Serbian medievalists
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