Jovan Radonić

Jovan Radonić
Born	Јован Радонић February 9, 1873 Mol, Austria-Hungary
Died	November 25, 1953 (aged 80) Yugoslavia
Occupation	historian and librarian

Jovan Radonić (February 9, 1873, Mol, Austria-Hungary — November 25, 1953, Yugoslavia) was historian, librarian of Matica Srpska library^[1] and member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Radonić graduated from the University of Vienna, where he studied under the tutelage of Konstantin Jireček and Vatroslav Jagić, and attended seminars given by Karl Krumbacher in Munich. In 1905, he taught at the University of Belgrade. In 1948 he joined the staff of the Institute of History of the Serbian Academy of Sciences. Radonić, a Slavist and Byzantinist, devoted his research to Balkan medieval history. He translated into Serbian and expanded Jireičk’s History of the Serbs (vols. 1–4, Belgrade, 1922–25; 2nd ed., Belgrade, 1952).

He dedicated his first book to Ilarion Ruvarac who established critical approach of Serbian historiography.^[2] In his very convenient work Đurađ Kastriot Skenderbeg i Arbanija u XV veku he had collected major documentary and literary sources about Skanderbeg.^[3]

Selected works

• Zapadna Evropa i balkanski narodi prema Turcima u prvoj polovini XV veka (in Serbian), Novi Sad: Matica Srpska, 1905, OCLC 13160612
• Ilarijon Ruvarac i njegovi radovi na polju crkvene istorije (in Serbian), 1906, OCLC 40630293
• Grof ĐorÄ‘e Branković, izabrani despot srpski u Budimu (in Serbian), Novi Sad: Matica srpska, 1911, OCLC 25321205
• Grof ĐorÄ‘e Branković i njegovo vreme (in Serbian), Belgrade: Srpska kraljevska akademija, 1911, OCLC 697776534
• ĐorÄ‘e Branković despot "Ilirika" (in Serbian), Belgrade: Å tamparija i cinkografija "Vreme", 1929, OCLC 23565443
• Kritovul: vizantijski istorik XV veka (in Serbian), Belgrade: Srpska Manastirska Å¡tamparija u Sremskim Karlovcima, 1930, OCLC 41427652
• Dubrovačka akta i povelje (in Serbo-Croatian), Belgrade: Srpska kraljevska akademija; Srpska akademija nauka, 1934–1951
• ĐuraÄ‘ Kastriot Skenderbeg i Arbanija u XV veku (in Serbian), Belgrade: Srpska Kraljevska Akademija, 1942, OCLC 11859269
• (In Serbian) Rimska kurija i južnoslovenske zemlje of XVI do XIX veka (Roman Curia and South-Slavic lands from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries), Belgrade, Srpska akademija nauka, 1950
• (in Serbian) Ogledalo sveta ili Istroija Mehmeda NeÅ¡rije (The Mirror of the World or the History of Mehmed NeÅŸri), Belgrade, Naučna knjiga, 1957

References

1. "ISTORIJSKI PREGLED" (in Serbian). Matica Srpska. Retrieved 29 November 2011. Istoričar Jovan Radonić, bibliotekar od 1899. do 1905. godine [Historian Jovan Radonic, librarian from 1899 to 1905
2. Jugoslovenski istorijski časopis. Savez druÅ¡tava istoričara Jugoslavije. 1979. p. 2. Retrieved 29 November 2011. Jovan Radonic posvetio je svoju prvu knjigu Ruvarcu — »tvorcu kritickoga pravca srpske istoriografije«
3. Setton, Kenneth (1978), The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571: The Fifteenth Century, American Philosophical Society, p. 72, ISBN 0-87169-127-2, retrieved 30 November 2011, Jovan Radonic has collected the major documentary and literary sources concerning Scanderbeg in his work Djuradj Kastriot Skanderbeg

External links

• Short biography of Jovan Radonić on the web site of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts