Vladimir Ćorović

Vladimir Ćorović (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир Ћоровић) (October 27 1885, Mostar - April 16 1941, Greece) was a Bosnian Serb historian.

Vladimir Ćorović was born in Mostar in Herzegovina, then under Ottoman sovereignty but under Austro-Hungarian administration, to a Serb family. Having finished primary school and the Gymnasium in Mostar, he continued his studies at the University of Vienna, gaining a Ph.D. in 1908 with a thesis on Lukijan Mušicki. During the First World War he was sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment. He was professor of Serbian history at the University of Belgrade since 1919, and Rector of the University in the 1934/35 and 1935/36 academic years.

His scientific work includes interpretations of the ancient Greek and Serbian records, then medieval historiography and monographs about the monasteries of the Serbian Bosnia (Tvrdoš, Duži, Zavala) to the relations between the Serbs in Montenegro and Muslims in Albania.

"The Holy Mountain and Chilandar" was published by the Chilandar brethren in 1985. Ćorović did not manage to finish this manuscript or to do the pre-press because World War started and when trying to fled the country with government he died in a plane crash on 16 April 1941 somewhere in Greece. Since Ćorović's unfinished manuscript was untitled, the Chilandar inhabitants decided to use the variant of the descriptive exactness of the manuscript itself ("Holy Mountain and Chilandar until the 16th Century"), although bibliographies show the abridged title.

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* "The names of the martyrs for the idea must be disclosed and recorded on the pages of the history of this movement, which, like all those until now, will confirm how this phenomenon has continually repeated itself in our past and has almost acquired the form of a periodical national event." — Vladimir Ćorović, "The Black Book"

External links

* [http://www.antikvarne-knjige.com/biografije/vladimir_corovic/vladimir_corovic_biografija.html Vladimir Ćorović - Biography in Serbian]
* [http://www.rastko.org.yu/rastko-bl/istorija/corovic/index_l.html Electronic Library of Collected Works of Vladimir Ćorović] ("in Serbian")