Dragutin Anastasijević was Serbian byzantinist

Byzantine studies

Byzantine studies is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities that addresses the history, culture, costumes, religion, art, such as literature and music, science, economy, and politics of the Byzantine Empire. The discipline's founder in Germany is considered to be the philologist Hieronymus...

 and philologist

Philology

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, a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

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Biography

Anastasijević completed gymnasium

Gymnasium (school)

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 in Belgrade and in 1900 he graduated classical philology on Belgrade Higher School. He attended byzantine studies and modern Greek philology in Munich

Munich

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 (his mentor was Karl Krumbacher

Karl Krumbacher

Karl Krumbacher was a German scholar who was an expert on Byzantine culture.He was born at Kürnach im Allgäu in Bavaria, and was educated at the Universities of Munich and Leipzig, and held the professorship of the middle ages and modern Greek language and literature in the former from 1897 to his...

) where he got his PhD in 1905. He was professor of byzantine studies on University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy

University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy

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 from 1906.

When army of Kingdom of Serbia occupied Albania

Albania (toponym)

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 in 1912, Anastasijević was engaged as translator for Greek language

Greek language

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 and after a while he was appointed on position of governor of Durrës County

Durrës County (Kingdom of Serbia)

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He was elected member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

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in 1946.