Safet Beg Bašagić

Among the first to hold a Ph.D in Bosnia & Herzegovina’s after defending his thesis at the University of Vienna in 1909. Bašagić was a researcher, collector, literary, journalist, poet, translator, professor, bibliographer, curator of a museum and statesman, he was a true Bosnian intellectual He founded numerous publications and societies that had a goal of intellectually stimulating a relatively poorly educated population as well as provide financial and peer support for formal education.