Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
founding	November 1, 1886
Sponsorship	state
place	Belgrade , Serbia
Chairman	Nikola Hajdin
Website	www.sanu.ac.rs

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in downtown Belgrade

Great Hall of the Serbian Academy

The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( Serbian Српска академија наука и уметности Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti , SANU for short) is the most famous academy in Serbia . Founded in 1886 as the Royal Serbian Academy (Srpska kraljevska akademija), it was renamed the Serbian Academy of Sciences (Srpska akademija nauka) in 1947 . It has had its current name since 1960.

history

The academy was founded on November 1st, 1886 by a law passed by the parliament, which left King Milan I. Obrenović to choose the founding members. They could then choose the other members. The first 16 members of the academy's four departments were appointed by the king on April 5, 1887.

Academy of Sciences Josif Pančić Dimitrije Nešić Jovan Žujović Ljubomir Kleric Academy of Philosophy Stojan Novaković Milan Kujundžić Svetislav Vulović Svetomir Nikolajević

Academy of Social Sciences Čedomilj Mijatović Milan Đ. Milićević Ljubomir Kovačević Panta Srećković Academy of Arts Ljubomir Nenadović Matija Ban Mihailo Valtrović Before that, Jenko

On June 30, 1947, after the monarchy was abolished, the Royal Academy became the Serbian Academy of Science with six, since 1998 with eight departments.

precursor

The great hall of the academy. Address of the corresponding academician Vladimir Stevanović on the occasion of a congress of phytogeography of the Balkan peninsula

The forerunner of the academy was the Society of Serbian Learning (Društvo srpske slovesnosti), founded on May 31, 1842 , which was merged into the Serbian Learning Society (Srpsko učeno društvo) on July 29, 1864 . On May 13, 1886, this society was dissolved to pave the way for the Royal Academy. Due to protests, the learned society was reopened on July 25, 1887. After a ministerial decree, it was incorporated into the Royal Academy in 1892.

Academy members

Every three years the membership of the Academy is changed by election.

Chairperson

• 1887–1888 Josif Pančić
• 1888-1889 Čedomilj Mijatović
• 1892-1895 Dimitrije Nešić
• 1896–1899 Milan Đ. Milićević
• 1899 Jovan Ristić
• 1899–1900 Sima Lozanić
• 1900–1903 Jovan Mišković
• 1903–1906 Sima Lozanić
• 1906–1915 Stojan Novaković
• 1915–1921 Jovan Žujović
• 1921–1927 Jovan Cvijic
• 1928–1931 Slobodan Jovanović
• 1931–1937 Bogdan Gavrilović
• 1937-1960 Aleksandar Belic
• 1960–1965 Ilija Đuričić
• 1965–1971 Velibor Gligorić
• 1971–1981 Pavle Savic
• 1981–1994 Dušan Kanazir
• 1994–1998 Aleksandar Despić
• 1999-2003 Dejan Medaković
• 2003 - Nikola Hajdin

Departments

The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts is now divided into eight departments:

• Engineering Department
• Department of Medical Sciences
• Department of Mathematics , Physics and Earth Sciences
• Department of Chemistry and Biology
• Department of Philology
• Department of Fine Arts and Musicology
• Department of Social Sciences
• Department of History

Web links

• Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts website (Serbian, English, French)