MARKOVICH (Marković), Miroslav

MARKOVICH (Marković), Miroslav. Belgrad 18.3.1919 — Urbana, Ill. 14.6.2001. Yugoslavian (Serbian?) Classical Scholar in America. Studies at Belgrad, graduated 1941. Participated in war as partisan under Tito, then 1946-54 Lecturer in Classical Philology at Belgrad. In 1953 went to India and worked at Visva-Bharati, in 1954 emigrated to Venezuela. In…

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SLIJEPČEVIĆ, Pero

SLIJEPČEVIĆ, Pero. Samobor near Gacka in Herzegovina 12.6.1888 — Belgrade 13.12.1964. Yugoslavian (Serbian) Author and Linguist. Educated in Mostar. Studies of German. Ph.D. 1920 Fribourg in Switzerland. Professor of Germanistics at Sarajevo, after WW II at Belgrade. Publications: Diss. Buddhismus in der Deutschen Literatur. 4+127 p. Vienna 1920. – Other…

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MINDEROVIĆ, Čedomir

MINDEROVIĆ, Čedomir. Belgrad 31.10.1912 — New Delhi 16.1.1965. Yugoslavian (Serbian) Author interested in India. Lost early his parents. After difficult childhood he started literary work and political activity in the age of 17 and was often persecuted for them but he was a convinced Marxist. In 1941 he was among…

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MIHANOVIĆ, Antun

MIHANOVIĆ Petropoljski, Antun. Klanjec 10.6.1796 — Novi Dvori 14.11.1861. Austrian (Croatian) Nationalist Author. Born in a noble family. Studied law at Vienna until 1817 and worked then as military judge. Entered soon the foreign department and served in Austrian consulates in Belgrad, Thessaloniki, Smyrna, Constantinople and Bucharest, retired 1858 and…

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JEVTIĆ, Pavle

JEVTIĆ, Pavle. 1??? — 195?. Yugoslavian (Serbian) Indologist. He began his career as a monk and student of theology, but then went to London and studied Indology at S.O.A.S., Ph.D. 1927 there. Returned, he became the disciple of the Serbian guru Dimitrije Mitrinović. He worked in Pressbureau, was portparol of…

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ATANACKOVIĆ, Platon

ATANACKOVIĆ, Platon (born Pavle Atanacković). Sombor in Vojvodina 10.7.1788 — Novi Sad 21.4.1867. Serbian Orthodox Bishop interested in Linguistics. Born in the then Austro-Hungarian Northern Serbia, became the bishop of Bačka and promoted education in his home country. With the help of the German translation of —> Eichhoff’s works he…

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