Aleksandar Stipčević (October 10, 1930 – September 1, 2015) was an Arbanas

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n archeologist, bibliographer, librarian and historian of

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of the

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. He was born in the village of Arbanasi near

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(then Zara,

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), a member of the local Arbanasi community. From 1970 to 1973, in the capacity of a senior lecturer, as an external collaborator, he taught 'Introduction to Archaeology' at the

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in Pristina. He was a full professor at the

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from 1987 until his retirement in 1997. He was a member of the

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. His 1974 book ''Iliri'' ("The Illyrians") has been translated into English,

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and Albanian. He was awarded the Order of Skanderbeg by Albania.

Works

* ''Gli Iliri'' ("Illyrians"; 1966) * ''Arte degli Illiri'' ("The Illyrian Art"; 1963) * ''Iliri: povijest, život, kultura'' (1974) * ''Bibliografija antičke arheologije u Jugoslaviji'' (I–II, 1977) * ''Kultni simboli kod Ilira'' ("The Illyrian Cult Symbols"; 1981) * ''Povijest knjige'' ("The History of Books"; 1985, extended edition in 2006) * ''Cenzura u knjižnicama'' ("Censorship and Libraries"; 1992) * ''O savršenom cenzoru'' (1994) * ''Sudbina knjige'' (2000) * ''Socijalna povijest knjige u Hrvata'' (I–III, 2004–08) * ''Tradicijska kultura zadarskih Arbanasa ''(2011) Some of them are translated to other languages. He was the editor-in-chief of the second volume of the ''

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'' (1983–1989).

References

1930 births 20th-century Croatian historians Academic staff of the University of Zagreb 2015 deaths 21st-century Croatian historians Arbanasi people 20th-century Croatian male writers Illyrologists Croatian archaeologists Members of the Kosova Academy of Sciences and Arts {{Croatia-scientist-stub