Midhat Šamić

Novelist and translator. Born in Sarajevo, he would go on to defended two doctoral dissertations in comparative literature at the Sorbonne University in 1958 : Les Voyageurs français en Bosnie ... (main thesis) and Les Sources historiques de la Chronique de Travnik by Ivo Andrić (supplementary thesis). He also taught French literature and Serbo - Croatian language and Yugoslav literature at the Sorbonne. His scientific work focused on French literature and comparative literature. He wrote about writers of various epochs, from the 16th to the 20th century (Rabelais, Montaigne, Molière, etc.). He made enormous contributions to the problems of teaching methodology and techniques of learning living languages, as well as the methodology and techniques of scientific research. He was a long serving member of the Academy of Sciences of Bosnia and Herzegovina.