Đorđe Pejanović

Intellectual, bibliographer, librarian and educator. Born in Mostar, his life was marked by numerous wars and disruptions. He was an extremally gifted young individual who was schooled in Mostar, Sarajevo, Zagreb & Vienna. He studied mathematics and philosophy at university graduating in 1902. He became a professor at the Serbian Gymnasium in Thessaloniki teaching mathematics and physics. In Yugoslavia he dedicated himself to intensive journalistic, scientific, editorial and editorial work, and he was constantly engaged in his pedagogical profession. Instead of school work, he gave priority to the general enlightenment of the people. Due to the huge number of illiterates, he approached practically the establishment of illiteracy courses, and theoretically in the articles he published. He was an initiator for the founding of the Association of Librarians of SR Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1949.