Svetozar Radojčić ( sr-cyr, Светозар Радојчић; 27 May 1909 – 20 October 1978) was a
Serb
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ian art historian and academic. He played an important part in establishing the method of
iconology
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in the second part of the 20th century.
Biography
Born in
Sremski Karlovci
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,
Austria-Hungary
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(now Serbia), his father Nikola was a professor at the Karlovci gymnasium, where Svetozar finished primary school in 1920.
The same year he began secondary education in Ljubljana, where his father was employed at the Ljubljana University. Upon completion of art studies, he studied archaeology at the Ljubljana University between 1928 and 1932. In 1930–31 he also studied at the Zagreb University and summer school at the Archaeology Institute in Feistritz (Bistrica). He also studied at Vienna and Prague (Institute of N. P. Kondakov and Karlov University), and in 1933 worked at archaeological sites and museums in
Venice
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Aquilea and
Grado
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. His doctoral thesis ''Portreti srpskih vladara u srednjem veku'' ("Portraits of Serbian rulers in the Middle Ages") was defended in Ljubljana on 30 October 1934, and it was published the same year in
Skopje
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as a publication of the Museum of South Serbia. After World War II, he participated in the re-establishment of the Department of Art History at the
University of Belgrade
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's Faculty of philosophy. He studied Serbian medieval portraits and Serbian art under Ottoman rule. Many questions that he raised in his writings were later the subject of study by his former students and disciples.
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See also
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Milan Kašanin
Milan Kašanin ( sr-cyr, Милан Кашанин; 21 February 1895 – 22 November 1981) was a Serbian art historian, art critic, curator and writer. He served as the head of three Belgrade based museums, the Museum of Prince Pavle (the modern-d ...
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20th-century Serbian historians
Serbian medievalists
Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
People from Sremski Karlovci
1909 births
1978 deaths