Radovan Samardžić ( sr-cyr, Радован Самарџић; Sarajevo, 22 October 1922 – Belgrade, 1 February 1994) was a Yugoslav and Serbian
historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...
, member of the
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (; , SANU) is a national academy and the most prominent academic institution in Serbia, founded in 1841 as Society of Serbian Letters (, DSS).
The Academy's membership has included Nobel Prize, Nobel la ...
(SANU).
He successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on the history of Dubrovnik in 1956. As a pupil of French historian,
Fernand Braudel
Fernand Paul Achille Braudel (; 24 August 1902 – 27 November 1985) was a French historian. His scholarship focused on three main projects: ''The Mediterranean'' (1923–49, then 1949–66), ''Civilization and Capitalism'' (1955–79), and the un ...
, Samardžić, throughout of his career, focused on research of
Ottoman history
The Ottoman Empire was founded c. 1299 by Turkoman chieftain Osman I as a small beylik in northwestern Anatolia just south of the Byzantine capital Constantinople. In 1326, the Ottoman Turks captured nearby Bursa, cutting off Asia Minor from Byz ...
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See also
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List of Serbian historians
This is a list of Serbian historians, including area of expertise.
* Čedomir Antić (born 1974), the modern history of Serbia
* Lazar Arsenijević Batalaka (1793-1869), history of the Serbian revolution (1803-1813)
* Dušan T. Bataković (1957†...
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1922 births
1994 deaths
20th-century Serbian historians
Yugoslav historians
Writers from Sarajevo
Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
20th-century Bosnia and Herzegovina historians
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