Đuro Basler

Historian, archaeologist and conservator. Born near Bosanski Brod, he studied archaeology at the the University of Zagreb. From 1950 to 1959 he worked as a conservator of archaeological monuments at the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina , and from 1960 as an archaeologist at the National Museum in Sarajevo. During his career, he excavated and preserved a number of important prehistoric, Roman and medieval sites. At the National Museum he founded (1960) a research center for Paleolithic and Mesolithic cultures. He was considered by his peers the last true polyhistorian.