Alojz Benac

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Alojz Benac (born October 20, 1914 in Plehan near Derventa , † March 6, 1992 in Sarajevo ) was a Yugoslav archaeologist and historian.

Life

Benac attended schools in Vinkovci , Derventa, Visoko and Zagreb . He studied Classical Philology and Archeology at the University of Belgrade . In 1951 he received his doctorate with a topic on the Butmir culture . At the beginning of the Second World War he worked as a high school teacher in Vranje (1939/1940) and Mostar (1940-1943). From 1943 he was active in the resistance against the German occupation.

Temporarily employed in the Ministry of Education in Sarajevo, from 1947 he worked in the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina , where he headed the prehistoric and archaeological department from 1957 to 1968. In 1964 he began to teach archeology at the University of Sarajevo , where he taught archeology and ancient history as a professor from 1968 to 1978. As a visiting professor he taught prehistoric archeology at the University of Zadar (1962–1965); In 1965 he directed an event on the history of the Balkans at the University of Münster .

His research focused primarily on the Neolithic and Bronze Ages of the Western Balkans and particularly Bosnia. In addition, there was the ethnogenesis of the Illyrians and the migrations of Indo-Europeans . Benac directed a number of excavations, most notably the Butmir and Vučedol cultures . He also dealt with questions of the chronology of the Bronze and Iron Ages of the Illyrian culture or medieval tombstones in Bosnia.

Benac founded the Center for Balkan Studies of the Scientific Society in Bosnia and Herzegovina, of which he was Secretary General from 1971 to 1977 and President until 1981. He was President of the Yugoslav Archaeological Society in 1953 and 1954. From 1956 he was a permanent member of the Conseil Permanent of the Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques (UISPP) ; and in 1977 the Association Internationale d'Etudes Sud-Est Européen, founded in Bucharest in 1963 . He was also a member of the Florentine Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria and, since 1958, of the German Archaeological Institute . From 1982 he was editor-in-chief of Enciklopedija Jugoslavije .

Fonts (selection)

  • Radimlja , Sarajevo 1950.
  • Radimlja (Srednjevjekovni nadgrobni spomenici Bosne i Hercegovine, Sveska I) . Izdanje zemaljskog museja, Sarajevo 1950.
  • Široki Brijeg (Srednjevjekovni nadgrobni spomenici Bosne i Hercegovine, Sveska III) . Izdanje zemaljskog museja, Sarajevo 1952.
  • Prehistorijsko naselje Nebo i problem butmirske kulture , Ljubljana 1952.
  • with Dimitrije Sergejevski, Đoka Mazalić: Kulturna istorija Bosne i Hercegovine , Sarajevo 1955.
  • with Oto Bihalji-Merin : Stones of the Bogomils , 1964.
  • Stećci , Beograd 1967.
  • Neolitsko naselje u dolini Bile , in: Glasnik Zemaljskog Muzeja Bosne i Hercegovine u Sarajevu (GZM) 8, 1953.
  • Crvena Stijena - stratum I-IV , GZM 12, 1957.
  • Zelena Pecina , GZM 12, 1957.
  • Pivnica kod Odžaka i neki problemi kostolacke kulture , GZM 17, 1962.
  • Obre II - Neolitsko naselje butmirske grupe na Gornjem polju . Glasnik 26 (1971) 5-300. (to the Butmir culture )
  • Obre I , GZM 27/28, 1972-1973.

literature

  • Borivoj Čović: Biografija Alojza Benca. In: Godišnjak. Centar za balkanološkaispitivanja 13 (1976) 11, pp. 11-14.
  • Ante Cuvalo: The A to Z of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham / Plymouth 2007, pp. 20–21 sv Alojz Benac (very brief biography).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Former Presidents 1966- ( English ) Retrieved July 5, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Benac, Alojz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav archaeologist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Plehan at Derventa
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1992
Place of death Sarajevo