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Archaeology · XX century · Konjic

Pavao Anđelić

1925 — 1985 · lived 60 years

Lawyer , archaeologist and historian who dealt with the history of medieval Bosnia especially the developed Middle Ages. Although he graduate from Zagreb Law school in 1946 and practiced law until 1954, his real passion was history and archelogy.

He studied history in Sarajevo and got his Ph.D. from the University of Belgrade in 1972. He was an archaeologist with the National Museum in Sarajevo from 1955 until 1976. His archaeological work at royal court sites of medieval Bosnia on Bobovac and Kraljeva Sutjeska, and in the area of medieval Visoko, are legendary. He wrote numerous research papers and important books on these topics. He is considered the founder of heraldic science in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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