Dragoslav Srejović

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Dragoslav Srejović (born October 8, 1931 in Kragujevac ; † November 29, 1996 ) was a Serbian-Yugoslav archaeologist.

He studied at the University of Belgrade , where he received his doctorate in 1954 with a dissertation on Neolithic and Eeolithic anthropomorphic statuettes in Yugoslavia (Belgrade 1964). In 1958 he became assistant, 1966 lecturer and 1970 professor for the prehistory of the Balkans , which he remained until his death. Srejović was engaged in various branches of archeology and carried out many excavations in Serbia and Montenegro or led them as director. The excavations of Mesolithic and Neolithic sites in Lepenski Vir and the excavations in the Roman settlements of Gamzigard and Šarkamen were particularly important . He also dug in the early Neolithic Vlasac , for example . The publications of the excavations made him known at home and abroad.

His position in the cultural and scientific life of Serbia was expressed in his role as Vice President of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts . In addition, Srejović was a member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute . He died after a serious illness.

Fonts

  • Burial mounds in the Carpathian-Danube-Balkan zone during the Eeolithic period (Beograd, Centar za Arheoloska Instrazivanja, 1987).
  • Lepenski Vir. Nova praistorijska kultura u Podunavlju . SKZ Beograd 1969.
  • Europe's First Monumental Sculpture. New Discoveries at Lepenski Vir . London 1972. Dt. Lepenski Vir (Bergisch Gladbach: Lübbe, 1981).
  • Rečnik grčke i rimske mitologije . Beograd 1979 (together with A. Cermanović – Kuzmanović) * Umetnost Lepenskog vira . Beograd 1983 (together with Lj.Babović)
  • Leksikon religija i mitova drevne Evrope . Beograd 1992 (together with A. Cermanović – Kuzmanović)
  • Carski mauzoleji i konsekrativni spomenici u Feliks Romuliani . Beograd 1994 (together with Č. Vasić)

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SURNAME Srejović, Dragoslav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav and Serbian archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Kragujevac
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1996