Vladimir Ćorović

A world renowned historian, scholar, historian, university professor, author, and academic. His bibliography consists of more than 1000 works. Ćorović was born and raised in Mostar and graduated at the University of Vienna in 1904, studying Slavic Archaeology, History and Philology. He attained a Ph.D. in 1908 from the same institution, thus becoming one of the first in Bosnia & Herzegovina with the title. He was a professor of Serbian history at the University of Belgrade since 1919, and Rector in 1934–35 and 1935–36 and also becoming the first from Bosnia & Herzegovina at the head of this academic institution. He worked as a curator and later administrator at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is considered one of the greatest academic historians in the western Balkans.