Jovan Erdeljanović (11 November 1874 – 12 February 1944) was a Serbian and Yugoslav

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Biography

Jovan Erdeljanović was born in

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. He studied at the universities of

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and

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. In 1905 he obtained his doctorate as

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. In 1906, Erdeljanović began working at the

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, elected Professor at Department of Ethnology of the philosophical Faculty since 1922. He remained at the University until 1941 and was member of Serbian Academy of Sciences. The first recognized work of

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interest in ethnicity was done by Erdeljanović, named as one of the founding fathers of Serbian ethnology. His works are influenced by ideas of

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and

Yugoslavism Yugoslavism, Yugoslavdom, or Yugoslav nationalism is an ideology supporting the notion that the South Slavs, namely the Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Macedonians (ethnic group), Macedonians, Montenegrins, Serbs and Slovenes belong to a single ...

and he represented the theory that

Yugoslavs Yugoslavs or Yugoslavians ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Jugoslaveni/Jugosloveni, Југославени/Југословени; ; ) is an identity that was originally conceived to refer to a united South Slavic people. It has been used in two connotations: ...

are people of one blood and one origin.

Selected works

*''Etnološka građa i rasprave'', Srpska kraljevska akademija, Belgrade 1911. * ''Tragovi najstarijeg slovenskog sloja u Banatu'', Niederlův sbornik, Prague 1925. * * ''O poreklu Bunjevaca'', Srpska kraljevska akademija, Belgrade 1930. *''Forschungen über Alter, Organisation und Überlieferungen serbischer Stämme in Montenegro, Herzegovina und in den Nachbargebieten Jugoslawiens'', Brill,

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1936. * ''Koju ćemo kulturu: samo srpsku ili jugoslovensku?'', Zora, Belgrade 1938.J. Erdeljanović i
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Biography

Selected works

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