Šefik Bešlagić | |
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Born |
Tuzla, Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary |
6 April 1908
Died | 19 November 1990 Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia |
(aged 82)
Nationality | Austro-Hungarian, Yugoslav |
Occupation | Historian |
Known for | Bosnian history |
Šefik Bešlagić (6 April 1908 – 19 November 1990) was a cultural historian from Bosnia. From 1953 to 1967 Šefik Bešlagić was the director of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He explored the medieval necropolis of marble or Stećci. He was a historian of material culture, especially of stones (Stećci, nišani, čatrnje, stolice).
Bešlagić was born in the town of Gornja Tuzla in 1908. His mother Devleta (née Mulalić) was a housewife, while his father Agan was a teacher.
Šefik Bešlagić was educated in Tuzla, Doboj and Sarajevo, before teaching in Derventa and Gračanica.