Tihomir Đorđević (

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, 19 February 1868 — Belgrade,

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, 28 May 1944) was a Serbian

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, cultural historian and professor at the

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Biography

He received his B.A. in History and Philology at the ''

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'' in Belgrade. He pursued his post-graduate studies in

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and

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, where he received his doctorate in 1902. Among the Munich

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were

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, Veselin Čajkanović and

Dragutin Anastasijević Dragutin Anastasijević (Kragujevac, 30 July 1877 – Belgrade, 20 August 1950) was Serbian byzantinist and philologist, a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Biography Anastasijević completed gymnasium in Belgrade and in 1900 h ...

, his contemporaries. Đorđević's interests were very wide and varied, ranging from detailed analyzes of the folklife of Serbs through ethnographic research of the lives of other peoples in Serbia (

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Aromanians The Aromanians ( rup, Armãnji, Rrãmãnji) are an ethnic group native to the southern Balkans who speak Aromanian, an Eastern Romance language. They traditionally live in central and southern Albania, south-western Bulgaria, northern and c ...

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Circassians The Circassians (also referred to as Cherkess or Adyghe; Adyghe and Kabardian: Адыгэхэр, romanized: ''Adıgəxər'') are an indigenous Northwest Caucasian ethnic group and nation native to the historical country-region of Circassia ...

, etc.) to folklore and sociological studies not only of Serbia, but also of the Balkan people in general . Although not an anthropologist, he is the first Serbian scientist who explicitly pointed to the importance of

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for history and ethnology. In 1908, while researching at the unknown cemetery in

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, he demonstrated that old cemeteries, necropolises, are primary sources for data for many scientific disciplines. In his book Đorđević emphasized that the data, obtained through the study of skeletons and graves, represent the only source of material, appearance and way of life of a people in the past when written records are lacking. He was elected a correspondent member of the

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, sr-Cyr, Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the ...

on 19 February 1921, and regular member on 16 February 1937.

Major works

* ''The Truth Concerning the Romanes in Serbia'', Paris, Impremèrie Graphique, 1919 * ''Macedonia'', London, Allen & Unwin, 1918 * ''From Serbia, Prince Miloš'', I-II, 1922–1924 * ''Gypsies in Serbia'', a doctoral dissertation * ''Our national life'', Volumes I-X

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