Stanoje Stanojević was a Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

n historian, university professor, academic and a leader of many scientific and publishing enterprises.

Career

Stanojević finished university studies and philosophy doctorate in Vienna

Vienna

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 in 1896. In 1903, he became a professor of high school in Belgrade

Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

. During Austro-Hungarian occupation of Serbia in World War I

World War I

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, Stanojević escaped to Sankt Petersburg, where he became university professor. Since 1917, he lectured at Sorbonne

Sorbonne

The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...

 and at the University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

. In 1919, Stanojević became professor of 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...

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Works

Stanojević wrote many books about Serbian history, including:

• "Byzantium and the Serbs" ("Vizantija i Srbi")
• "Saint Sava" ("Sveti Sava")
• "Stefan Lazarević's biography" ("Biografija Stefana Lazarevića od Konstantina filozofa")
• "Studies on Serbian diplomacy" ("Studije o srpskoj diplomatici")
• "History of the Serbian People" ("Istorija srpskog naroda")
• "About South Slavs in VI, VII, VIII centuries" ("O Južnim Slovenima u VI, VII, VIII veku")

He also organized and arranged the "Great National Encyclopedia of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes" ("Velika Narodna enciklopedija Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca"), which was the first work of the kind written in Serbian language

Serbian language

Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....

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External links

• Brief biography of Stanoje Stanojević (in Serbian)
• "History of Bosnia and Herzegovina", written by Stanoje Stanojević (in Serbian)