Milorad Ekmečić
| Milorad Ekmečić | |
|---|---|
| Born |
4 October 1928 Prebilovci, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
| Died |
29 August 2015 (aged 86) Belgrade, Serbia |
| Nationality |
Yugoslav Serbian |
| Occupation | Historian |
Milorad Ekmečić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милорад Екмечић; 4 October 1928 – 29 August 2015) was Serbian historian who was a member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts (SANU) and the Senate of Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1]
Life
During World War II, Ekmečić lost 78 members of his family in the Prebilovci massacre. His father, uncle and other members of his family were killed by their neighbour. The surviving members of his family formed a unit of the Yugoslav Partisans in Prebilovci.[2]
In the late years of the Yugoslav era, Ekmečić was a professor of history in the University of Sarajevo. Originally a supporter of Yugoslavism, during the rise of nationalism in Yugoslavia he became a proponent of Serbian nationalism.[3] In 1990, Ekmečić helped establish the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) in Bosnia and Herzegovina.[2] He became a leading member of the party, and is regarded as a "spiritual father of Bosnian Serb nationalists".[4][5] During the Yugoslav Wars he was abducted by Bosniak groups, who aimed at trading him for the safe passage of a convoy of children through areas held by Bosnian Serb nationalists in Ilidža.[6]
During his life Ekmečić was a member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts, the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska.[7] He was also a member of the Senate of Republika Srpska.[8] He died at a hospital in Belgrade on 29 August 2015.[1]
Bibliography
- Ustanak u Bosni: 1875-1878. Sarajevo. 1960.
- Osnove građanske diktature u Evropi između dva rata. Sarajevo. 1965.
- Ratni ciljevi Srbije 1914. Prosveta. 1973.
- Stvaranje Jugoslavije 1790-1918. Prosveta. 1989.
- Ratni ciljevi Srbije 1914 (2nd ed.). Prosveta. 1990.
- Srbija između Srednje Evrope i Evrope 1992. BMG. 1992.
- Ratni ciljevi Srbije : 1914-1918. BMG. 1992.
- Srbofobija i antesemitizam. 2000.
- Istorijske i strateške osnove Republike Srpske. ANURS. 2007.
References
- 1 2 http://www.blic.rs/Vesti/Drustvo/586713/Preminuo-akademik-Milorad-Ekmecic
- 1 2 Judah, Tim (2000). The Serbs: History, Myth, and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. Yale University Press. p. 127. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
- ↑ Macdonald, David Bruce (2003-04-19). Balkan Holocausts?: Serbian and Croatian Victim Centered Propaganda and the War in Yugoslavia. Manchester University Press. pp. 97–. ISBN 9780719064678. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
- ↑ Caspersen, Nina (2010-01-01). Contested Nationalism: Serb Elite Rivalry in Croatia and Bosnia in the 1990s. Berghahn Books. pp. 79–. ISBN 9781845457266. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
- ↑ RFE/RL News Briefs. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. December 1993. p. 149.
- ↑ Pejanović, Mirko (2004). Through Bosnian Eyes: The Political Memoir of a Bosnian Serb. Purdue University Press. p. 78. ISBN 9781557533593. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
- ↑ Милорад Екмечић, Одељење историјских наука , редовни члан (in Serbian).
АНУ БиХ, дописни од 1973, редовни од 1981; ЦАНУ, дописни од 1993; АН Републике српске, члан ван радног састава, 1996.
- ↑ "MEMBERS OF THE SENATE". predsjednikrs.net. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
Sources
- Jovan Janjić (1995). Srpski odgovor. Matica srpska. p. 103.
- Жива реч Милорада Екмечића. Дечје новине. 1990.