Svetozar Radojčić ( sr-cyr, Светозар Радојчић; 27 May 1909 – 20 October 1978) was a

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ian art historian and academic. He played an important part in establishing the method of

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in the second part of the 20th century.

Biography

Born in

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(now Serbia), his father Nikola was a professor at the Karlovci gymnasium, where Svetozar finished primary school in 1920. The same year he began secondary education in Ljubljana, where his father was employed at the Ljubljana University. Upon completion of art studies, he studied archaeology at the Ljubljana University between 1928 and 1932. In 1930–31 he also studied at the Zagreb University and summer school at the Archaeology Institute in Feistritz (Bistrica). He also studied at Vienna and Prague (Institute of N. P. Kondakov and Karlov University), and in 1933 worked at archaeological sites and museums in

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and

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. His doctoral thesis ''Portreti srpskih vladara u srednjem veku'' ("Portraits of Serbian rulers in the Middle Ages") was defended in Ljubljana on 30 October 1934, and it was published the same year in

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as a publication of the Museum of South Serbia. After World War II, he participated in the re-establishment of the Department of Art History at the

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's Faculty of philosophy. He studied Serbian medieval portraits and Serbian art under Ottoman rule. Many questions that he raised in his writings were later the subject of study by his former students and disciples.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Radojcic, Svetozar 20th-century Serbian historians Serbian medievalists Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts People from Sremski Karlovci 1909 births 1978 deaths

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