Anto Babić

Historian, professor and educator. Born and raised in Travnik, Babić graduated in history and geography at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb (1923). During the WW2, he was actively involved in the National Liberation War, and at the first session of ZAVNOBiH he was elected a member of the Presidency, where he headed the Department of Education in the liberated territory of BiH. From 1945-46 he was the minister of education of BiH and in 1950 became the first dean of the faculty of philosophy, University of Sarajevo. He founded the department of history and published important works on feudalism, Bosnian state, the church of Bosnia and diplomacy from the medieval period. He was a member of the Bosnian, Serbian and Macedonian academies of science & art.