Andrija Luburić (16 November 1891 – 19 March 1944) was a Serbian

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

and collector of

folk songs Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has be ...

. He is remembered as one of three major Serbian

folklorists Folklore studies (also known as folkloristics, tradition studies or folk life studies in the UK) is the academic discipline devoted to the study of folklore. This term, along with its synonyms, gained currency in the 1950s to distinguish the ac ...

of the early 20th century along with

Nikola T. Kašiković Nikola T. Kašiković (Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ), ; ''see Names of European cities in different languages (Q–T)#S, names in other languages'' is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, largest city of Bosnia and H ...

and Novica Šaulić.

Biography

Andrija Luburić was born on 16 November 1891 in Nikšić. Mirko Radoičić mentions his father, Mrdak Luburić from Rioca near Bileće as a prominent participant Herzegovina uprising of 1875–1878), and Stanislav Vinaver and as a "famous

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". Very early, in 1910, at the urging of

Jovan Erdeljanović Jovan Erdeljanović (11 November 1874 – 12 February 1944) was a Serbian and Yugoslav ethnologist. Biography Jovan Erdeljanović was born in Pančevo, Austria-Hungary. He studied at the universities of Vienna, Berlin, Leipzig and Prague. In 19 ...

, Luburić began collecting folk songs and various materials for studying the settlements and the origins of the population Old Hercegovina (

Nikšić Nikšić (Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Никшић, ), is the second largest city in Montenegro, with a total population of 32,046 (2023 census) located in the west of the country, in the centre of the spacious Nikšić field at the foot of Trebjesa ...

, Drobnjak,

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Golija Golija ( sr-Cyrl, Голија, ) is a mountain in southwestern Serbia, located between towns of Ivanjica and Novi Pazar. It is part of the Dinaric mountain range. The mountain is heavily forested with significant biodiversity. It contains the G ...

, Bijela Rudina and

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). In August 1913, he met

Jovan Cvijić Jovan Cvijić ( sr-Cyrl, Јован Цвијић, ; 1865 – 16 January 1927) was a Serbs, Serbian geographer, Ethnology, ethnologist, university professor and academic. He was the president of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, S ...

, who gave him instructions for furthering his work. However, this work was interrupted the following year by

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. After the war, Andrija taught in two villages in Nikšić: Brezovik and Dragovoljići in 1919, then worked as a police clerk in his hometown in 1920. Then and during the twenties, he systematically collected folk songs. From 1927, Luburić lived in

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, where he was mainly engaged in scientific and literary work. At the end of 1928, with linguist Gerhard Geseman (1888–1948), guslar Tanasije Vućić, Andrija, through

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and

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, he travelled to

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for recording Vučić's repertoire on gold records. The folklorist Radosav Medenica (1897–1994) wrote quite extensively about this journey.See: R. Medenica, Naša narodna epika i njeni tvorci, Obod, Cetinje, 1975, 367 - 369. Although he spent more than twenty years collecting folk epic songs (800-plus), Luburić did a lot in the scientific field as well. He left behind five books: ''

Drobnjaci Drobnjaci ( sr-Cyrl, Дробњаци, ) was a tribe and historical region, Drobnjak, in Old Herzegovina in Montenegro (municipalities from Nikšić to Šavnik, Žabljak and Pljevlja). Its unofficial centre is in Šavnik. The Serb Orthodox ...

- a Serbian tribe in

Herzegovina Herzegovina ( or ; sh-Latn-Cyrl, Hercegovina, separator=" / ", Херцеговина, ) is the southern and smaller of two main geographical Regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being Bosnia (reg ...

and Montenegro'' (1930), '' Orlovići and their role in the Montenegrin Christmas Eve 1710'' (1934), ''Capitulation of

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: documents, vol. I'' (1938), ''The Origin and Past of the Dynasty Petrović-Njegoš'' (1940) and ''The Capitulation of Montenegro: Documents, Vol. II'' (1940). He died in

on 19 March 1944.

References

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