Dragutin Atanasijević

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Dragutin Anastasijević (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгутин Анастасијевић; Kragujevac, Principality of Serbia, 30 July 1877 - Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia, 20 August 1950) was a classical philologist and Byzantine scholar.[1]

Biography

Dragutin Atanasijević was born in Kragujevac on 30 July 1877. He finished the classical grammar school in Belgrade, and in 1900 he graduated in classical philology at the Grande école|Visoka škola in Belgrade. In Munich he studied Byzantine and modern Greek philology with Karl Krumbacher and received his doctorate in 1905. His doctoral dissertation was in the field of philology, but later he dealt with the history of Byzantium and Byzantine-Slavic relations, studied the origin of Samuel of Bulgaria and the chronology of wars with the Russian prince Sviatoslav II of Kiev, issues of Byzantine diplomacy.

Atanasijević was the first modern Byzantine scholar in Belgrade. In 1906 he was appointed lecturer, in 1908 permanent assistant professor, and in 1919 associate professor of Byzantine studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.[2]

He is the founder of the seminar for Byzantine studies in Belgrade. Since 1920, he was a professor of Greek language and Byzantine culture at the Faculty of Theology in Belgrade (1920-1941).

On 22 March 1946, he was elected a regular member of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences.[3]

Atanasijević also dealt a lot with Serbian medieval history. He mostly studied Serbian-Byzantine relations, the Holy Mountain (Mount Athos) and the Hilandar Monastery.

In the Encyclopedia of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, he published over two hundred articles that were specially published in his work Byzantium and the Byzantines. He also contributed to the Encyclopaedic Dictionary.

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