Tihomir Đorđević (

Knjaževac Knjaževac ( sr-cyr, Књажевац, ) is a town and municipality located in the Zaječar District of the Southern and Eastern Serbia, eastern Serbia. As of 2022, the municipality has a population of 25,341 inhabitants, while the town has 16,350 ...

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, 19 February 1868 —

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, 28 May 1944) was a Serbian

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folklorist Folklore studies (also known as folkloristics, tradition studies or folk life studies in the UK) is the academic discipline devoted to the study of folklore. This term, along with its synonyms, gained currency in the 1950s to distinguish the ac ...

, cultural historian and professor at the

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Biography

He received his B.A. in History and Philology at the ''

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'' in Belgrade. He pursued his post-graduate studies in

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and

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, where he received his doctorate in 1902. Among the Munich

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were

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and Dragutin Anastasijević, his contemporaries. Đorđević's interests were very wide and varied, ranging from detailed analyzes of the folklife of Serbs through ethnographic research of the lives of other peoples in Serbia (

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, etc.) to folklore and sociological studies not only of Serbia, but also of the Balkan people in general . Although not an anthropologist, he is the first Serbian scientist who explicitly pointed to the importance of

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for history and ethnology. In 1908, while researching at the unknown cemetery in

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, he demonstrated that old cemeteries, necropolises, are primary sources for data for many scientific disciplines. In his book Đorđević emphasized that the data, obtained through the study of skeletons and graves, represent the only source of material, appearance and way of life of a people in the past when written records are lacking. He was elected a correspondent member of the

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on 19 February 1921, and regular member on 16 February 1937.

Major works

* ''The Truth Concerning the Romanes in Serbia'', Paris, Impremèrie Graphique, 1919 * ''Macedonia'', London, Allen & Unwin, 1918 * ''From Serbia, Prince Miloš'', I-II, 1922–1924 * ''Gypsies in Serbia'', a doctoral dissertation * ''Our national life'', Volumes I-X

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dordevic, Tihomir 1868 births 1944 deaths People from Knjaževac Serbian folklorists University of Belgrade Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts People from the Kingdom of Serbia

Biography

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