Jovan Hadži-Vasiljević, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jovan Hadži-Vasiljević

Date of Birth: 18-Oct-1866

Place of Birth: Vranje, Pčinja District, Serbia

Date of Death: 29-Mar-1948

Profession: writer, historian, geographer, journalist

Nationality: Serbia

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Jovan Hadži-Vasiljević

  • Jovan Hadži-Vasiljevic (Serbian Cyrillic: ????? ????-?????????, 18 October 1866 – 29 March 1948) was a Serbian historian, ethnographer, journalist and writer.
  • Hadži-Vasiljevic was born in Vranje, at the time part of the Sanjak of Niš of the Ottoman Empire until it was captured by the Serbian Army in 1878.
  • His father was Hadži Vasilije of the Pogacarevic family, and his mother Katerina was the daughter of the churchwarden (ikonom) of Kumanovo, Dimitrije Mladenovic (1794–1880).
  • The Pogacarevic family (also known as Pogacarci) hailed from Rakovac, having settled in Vranje at the end of the 18th century.
  • He finished primary school in Vranje, gymnasium in Vranje and Niš, and the Great School in Belgrade at the History and Philology faculty.
  • He received his Philosophy doctorate at the University of Vienna in 1898.
  • As an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs he served from 1898 to 1904 in Bitola, Skopje and Belgrade.
  • After he left the civil service in 1904, he was the secretary of the Society of Saint Sava until 1940.
  • Throughout his life he worked for the national enlightenment of Serbs in the Ottoman Empire.
  • He participated in the Balkan Wars and the First World War.
  • He retreated with the Second Morava Division through Albania, which he described.
  • Hadži-Vasiljevic wrote extensively on history, geography and ethnology.
  • The high value of his work is due to the basis on field research, especially in the areas of Old Serbia and Macedonia (South Serbia).
  • He wrote over 200 historical and ethnographical works about those regions.
  • He was the editor of the Brastvo journal of the Society of Saint Sava.

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