Bogumil Hrabak ( sr-Cyrl, Богумил Храбак; 11 January 1927 – 12 December 2010) was a Yugoslav and

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historian, university professor and pedagogue. With a prolific and versatile career, he was considered "one of the last

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s of Yugoslav

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." He studied history from 1946 to 1951 at the

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and later in

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, where he received his doctorate in 1957. He worked in Belgrade at the Faculty of Philosophy (1951-1957), the Military History Institute until 1958 and the Institute of Social Sciences until 1965, then at the Faculty of Philosophy in

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, where he founded the Department of History, and from 1979 until his retirement in 1993 at the Faculty of Philosophy in

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. He was a full member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of

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(1978-1990). He was a historian of wide interests, who also dealt with various aspects of

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history, especially foreign trade and diplomacy of the

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Works

* * * Yugoslav prisoners in Italy and their volunteer question 1915–1918 (1980) * Wallachian and Uskok movements in northern Dalmatia in the 16th century (I – II, 1988) ) * Entente Powers and the United States of America towards Bulgaria 1915–1918 (1990) * * Prizren-Arbanasi League 1878–1881 (1998) * Podgorica until the beginning of the 19th century (2000) * * * * *

References

1927 births 2010 deaths People from Zrenjanin People from Belgrade 20th-century Serbian historians Yugoslav historians University of Belgrade alumni University of Sarajevo alumni Academic staff of the University of Belgrade Academic staff of the University of Pristina Academic staff of the University of Novi Sad 21st-century Serbian historians {{Serbia-historian-stub