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Miroslav Marcovich was a philologist and university professor. Marcovich was born in Belgrade

Belgrade

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. He studied at the University of Belgrade

University of Belgrade

The University of Belgrade is the oldest and largest university of Serbia.Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-based departments into a single university...

Faculty of Philosophy

University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy

The University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Serbia, founded in the early 19th century within the Belgrade Higher School...

graduating in 1942. In 1943 he served as the assistant to Georg Ostrogorsky, expert in Byzantine studies. He served in the army under Josip Broz Tito

Josip Broz Tito

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during World War II between 1944 and 1946. In 1953 he traveled to India where he began working at Visva-Bharati University

Visva-Bharati University

Visva Bharati University is a Central University for research and teaching in India, located in the twin towns of Santiniketan and Sriniketan in the Indian state of West Bengal. It was founded by Rabindranath Tagore who called it Visva Bharati, which means the communion of the world with India...

. In 1955 he moved to Mérida

Mérida, Mérida

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and worked as a professor of Ancient Greek and philosophy from 1955 to 1962 at the University of the Andes, Venezuela. In 1962, he taught at the University of Bonn

University of Bonn

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invited by Hans Herter

Hans Herter

Hans Herter was a German Classical philologist who was for many years Director of the Rheinischen Museum für Philologie, Bonn. His main interests lay in the works of Thucydides and Plato. Among his prominent students is Heinz-Günther Nesselrath.-Sources:*Rainer Lengeler, Ernst Vogt and Heinz Gerd...

. Between 1963 and 1968 he taught at the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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. He then moved in 1969 to the University of Illinois, Urbana, where he was the Head of the Department of Classics (1973–77), and taught there until his retirement in 1989. He also founded "Illinois Classical Studies" (Scholars Press) and served as its editor for 12 years. During those years he was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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, University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina

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, Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin

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, and was an Einstein Visiting Fellow in Tel Aviv. During his lifetime Marcovich wrote and edited 45 books, including critical editions of the fragments of Heraclitus

Heraclitus

Heraclitus of Ephesus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. He was of distinguished parentage. Little is known about his early life and education, but he regarded himself as self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom...

, the works of Diogenes Laertius

Diogenes Laertius

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and the Bhagavad-Gita and 248 articles and essays in Spanish, German, Italian, French and Serbo-Croatian. He died June 14, 2001 at the Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana, Illinois

Urbana, Illinois

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