Vladimir Ćorović
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| Born |
October 27, 1885 Mostar, Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Died | April 12, 1941 (aged 55) Greece |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna (Ph.D., History, 1908) |
| Occupation | Historian, professor |
Vladimir Ćorović (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир Ћоровић; October 27, 1885 – April 12, 1941) was a leading 20th-century Serbian historian, member of the Serbian Royal Academy, a future Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU). He is best known for his many acclaimed scholarly works on the history of Serbs and Yugoslavia.
Vladimir Ćorović was born in Mostar in Herzegovina, then under Ottoman sovereignty but under Austro-Hungarian administration, to a Serb Orthodox family involved in business.
Ćorović finished primary school and the Gymnasium in Mostar, in which he was one of many future Serb intellectuals, among whom were also his brother, Svetozar Ćorović, a well-known Serb novelist. Ćorović continued his studies at the University of Vienna in 1904, studying Slavic Archaeology, History and Philology. He was active in the Serbian academic group „Zora“. He gained a Ph.D. in 1908 with a thesis on Lukijan Mušicki, a Serbian poet from 18th century. His professors at Vienna were Vatroslav Jagić, Konstantin Jireček, and Milan Rešetar. In 1908 Ćorović went to Munich for specialized studies in Byzantine history and philology with Professor Karl Krumbacher.
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