Milan Dimic

Milan V. Dimic

Milan Velimir Dimić (* 15. March 1933 in Belgrade ; † 9. March 2007 ibid ) was a Serbian - Canadian literary scholar .

Dimić began his scientific career at the Institute for Experimental Phonetics of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and taught literary theory at the University of Belgrade from 1957 to 1962 . A scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enabled him to do postdoctoral studies in comparative literature at the University of Tübingen from 1963 . In 1963 he published three books that were republished several times: Predanja klasične starine (Legends of Classical Antiquity), Predanja starih Germana (Old Germanic Legends) and Predanja azijskih naroda (Legends of the Asian Peoples), followed by his edition by Franc Kafka in 1964 . Pripovetke (Franz Kafka: Selected narrative prose).

In 1966 Dimić went to Canada and became Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta . He headed the Faculty of Comparative Literature from 1969 to 1975 and was a founding member of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association, of which he was a board member from 1968 to 1998. In 1974 he founded the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature , of which he was editor until 1998, and in 1985 the Research Institute for Comparative Literature (now the MV Dimić Institute ). In 1983 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada . After his retirement in 1998, he continued to teach and took on a visiting professorship at Shih Hsin University in Taipei.

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• Gerald Gillespie, Stanford University: in memoriam Milan Dimić
• inquire journal of comparative literature - CL History: Northrop Frye, Milan Dimić and Comparative Literature

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Milan Dimic's Obituary on Edmonton Journal. Retrieved March 26, 2018 .