Hamdija Kreševljaković (18 September 1888 – 9 May 1959) was a Bosnian and Yugoslav

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Biography

Kreševljaković was born in Vratnik, a neighborhood in

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 Herzegovina, with a population of 2 ...

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. His father Mehmed (died 1929) was the son of Ibrahim Kreševljaković. He completed schooling 1 August 1912. Three

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s in Sarajevo, Kakanj and Gradačac carry his name.

Descendants

Kreševljaković's son Muhamed (1939–2001) served as the Mayor of Sarajevo from 1990 until 1994, during most of the

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. Muhamed's son, Nihad Kreševljaković, is a historian and the director of the Sarajevo War Theatre. Muhamed's son, Sead Kreševljaković, is a film-doc producer at Al Jazeera Balkans and the Consul General of the Republic of San Marino in Sarajevo.

Bibliography

*''Sarajevo za vrijeme austrougarske uprave'' (''Sarajevo in the time of Austro-Hungarian administration'', 1946) *''Vodovodi i gradnje na vodi''

References

1888 births 1959 deaths Writers from Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina Muslims Bosnia and Herzegovina essayists 20th-century Bosnia and Herzegovina historians Yugoslav historians Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Bosnia and Herzegovina orientalists {{Bosnia-bio-stub