Kovačević-Kojić, Desanka

Autor: Kovačević-Kojić, Desanka
Rok: 1925-2022
Oblast působnosti: historičky, medievalistky

Biogr./Hist. údaje: Srbská historička v oboru medievalistiky, práce z oboru.
Zdroj: Autoritní databáze Národní knihovny ČR

Desanka Kovačević-Kojić (Serbian Cyrillic: Десанка Ковачевић-Којић) is a Serbian historian, a specialist in the medieval history of Serbia and Bosnia, and in particular urban history, trade and commercial relations. Born on October 3, 1925, in Sarajevo, then a part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, she escaped from Sarajevo in 1993 after the civil war started and settled in Belgrade, where she is today a member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts. Before the civil war in Bosnia, she was elected a member of ANUBiH.Desanka Kovačević-Kojić studied history at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy, graduating in 1950. She was professor at the University of Sarajevo, and since 1993 has worked in the Institute for History in Belgrade. With Radovan Samardžić, during the 1960s she spent a year in Paris, specializing in history at the seminary of Fernand Braudel. She has published several monographs and more than a hundred studies and articles in the Serbian and French languages.