Tibor Živković ( sr-cyr, Тибор Живковић; 11 March 1966 – 26 March 2013) was a reputable
Serbian academic, historian and
Byzantinist
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who specialised in the period of the
Early Middle Ages
The Early Middle Ages (or early medieval period), sometimes controversially referred to as the Dark Ages, is typically regarded by historians as lasting from the late 5th or early 6th century to the 10th century. They marked the start of the Mi ...
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Biography
Živković was born in
Mostar
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, and history studied at the
Faculty of Philosophy
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at the
University of Belgrade
The University of Belgrade ( sr, / ) is a public university in Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia.
Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-ba ...
between 1985–90, when he graduated at the Department of Antiquity. He received his MA in 1996 with a thesis ''slavizacija na teritoriju Srbije VII-XI stoljeća'' (Slavicization on the territory of Serbia 7th–11th centuries). He received his PhD in 2000 with a dissertation ''Slavs under Byzantine rule from the 7th to 11th Centuries (until 1025'').
As of 1997, he worked at
The Institute of History of the
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, sr-Cyr, Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the ...
(SANU),
and was the director of the Historical Institute from 2002–10, as well as editor in chief of the Drafting Committee editions of the Historical Institute.
During the doctoral studies he was a scholar of the Greek government (1997–1999). As a scholar of the
Ministry of Science and Technological Development of Serbia stayed at the postdoctoral studies at the Center for Byzantine Research (Institute for Byzantine Research,
National Hellenic Research Foundation).
He participated as a team leader in archaeological excavations along the
Ibar river between 2003 and 2009. He taught general Middle Ages at the Faculty of Philosophy at the
University of Banja Luka
The University of Banja Luka ( sr, Универзитет у Бањој Луци, Univerzitet u Banjoj Luci, bs, Univerzitet u Banjoj Luci, hr, Sveučilište u Banjoj Luci, lat, Universitas Bania Lucensis) is the second-oldest university in Bosn ...
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Works
His field of historical research involved complex issues related to the Early Middle Age history of South Slavs, and the territory of Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Bulgaria, and Greece.
The emphasis in his research was on the history of Serbs in the early Middle Ages. He also researched and gave new insights on the ''
De Administrando Imperio'' (argued that the chapters on Croats and Serbs were based, besides various sources from Byzantine archive, mainly on a lost source hypothetically called De conversione Croatorum et Serborum and written by
Anastasius Bibliothecarius
Anastasius Bibliothecarius or Anastasius the Librarian (c. 810 – c. 878) was ''bibliothecarius'' (literally "librarian") and chief archivist of the Church of Rome and also briefly a claimant to the papacy.
Early life
He was a nephew of Bis ...
in late 8th century
) and ''
Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja
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'' (Gesta Regum Sclavorum), the early ecclesiastical history of the Serbian territory, and the early Serbian rulers. He published many scientific papers and books.
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Tibor Živkovićat
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1966 births
2013 deaths
20th-century Serbian historians
Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Writers from Mostar
Writers from Belgrade
Serbian medievalists
Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Balkan studies
Serbian Byzantinists
Scholars of Byzantine history
21st-century Serbian historians