- Vladimir Ćorović
Vladimir Ćorović (
Serbian Cyrillic : Владимир Ћоровић) (October 27 1885 ,Mostar -April 16 1941 ,Greece ) was aBosnian Serb historian.Vladimir Ćorović was born in
Mostar inHerzegovina , then under Ottoman sovereignty but under Austro-Hungarian administration, to a Serb family. Having finished primary school and the Gymnasium in Mostar, he continued his studies at theUniversity of Vienna , gaining a Ph.D. in 1908 with a thesis onLukijan Mušicki . During the First World War he was sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment. He was professor of Serbian history at theUniversity of Belgrade since 1919, andRector of the University in the 1934/35 and 1935/36 academic years.His scientific work includes interpretations of the
ancient Greek and Serbian records, then medieval historiography andmonograph s about the monasteries of the Serbian Bosnia (Tvrdoš , Duži, Zavala) to the relations between theSerbs inMontenegro andMuslims inAlbania ."The Holy Mountain and Chilandar" was published by the Chilandar brethren in 1985. Ćorović did not manage to finish this manuscript or to do the pre-press because World War started and when trying to fled the country with government he died in a plane crash on
16 April 1941 somewhere inGreece . Since Ćorović's unfinished manuscript was untitled, the Chilandar inhabitants decided to use the variant of the descriptive exactness of the manuscript itself ("Holy Mountain and Chilandar until the 16th Century"), although bibliographies show the abridged title.Quote
* "The names of the martyrs for the idea must be disclosed and recorded on the pages of the history of this movement, which, like all those until now, will confirm how this phenomenon has continually repeated itself in our past and has almost acquired the form of a periodical national event." — Vladimir Ćorović, "The Black Book"
External links
* [http://www.antikvarne-knjige.com/biografije/vladimir_corovic/vladimir_corovic_biografija.html Vladimir Ćorović - Biography in Serbian]
* [http://www.rastko.org.yu/rastko-bl/istorija/corovic/index_l.html Electronic Library of Collected Works of Vladimir Ćorović] ("in Serbian")
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