Vladislav Skarić

Historian and geographe who was born into a wealthy Sarajevo trading family and he was among the first in the country to receive a university education. He was schooled in Sarajevo in Sremski Karlovci. After graduating from high school he studied history and geography at the University of Graz. He worked as a teacher in high schools in Banja Luka and Sarajevo. He wrote for the magazine Bosanska vila, and was one of the founders of the Serbian Cultural and Educational Association Prosvjeta. From 1919 he became curator , and from 1926 to 1936 he was the director of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He published numerous important works on the history of Serbs in Sarajevo in great abundance and detail. He wrote a large number of works on the history of Serbs, Serbian customs, the origin of Serbs, the Serbian Orthodox Church and other similar topics. He was a member of SANU.