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Gligorije Elezović

1879 – 1960

Serbian historian and member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts

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Lived 1879 – 1960 (aged 81). Gligorije Elezović was a Serbian historian and translator.

Gligorije Elezović (; 18 January 1879 — 17 October 1960) was a Serbian historian and member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts. He was also one of the founding members of the Serb Democratic League, headed by Bogdan Radenković. In 1931, the Serbian Royal Academy (Srpska kraljevska akademija) established a Committee for the Collection of Eastern Historical and Literary Sources, which employed scholars like Gligorije Elezović and Fahim Barjaktarević who were sent to archives in Istanbul to investigate Ottoman sources related to Serbian history. Elezović was a scholar from Skopje (then South Serbia) with a prolific record of publishing Ottoman documents, and trained in Albanian and Turkish languages. He compiled and published Rečnik kosovo-metohiskog dijalekta (Dictionary of Kosovo-Metohija dialect) in Belgrade in 1932.

Works Iz carigradskih turskih arhiva Mühmme defteri, Beograd, 1951 (Zbornik za istočnjačku istorijsku i književnu građu = Recueil de matériaux d'histoire et de littérature orientale; Jahja paša; Kako su Turci posle više opsada zauzeli Beograd, Beograd, 1956 (Zbornik za istočnjačku istorijsku i književnu građu = Recueil de matériaux d'histoire et de littérature orientale; Kralj K´zi, Beograd, 1939; Ogledalo sveta ili Istorija Mehmeda Nešrije, Beograd, 1957 (Zbornik za istočnjačku istorijsku i književnu građu = Recueil de matériaux d'histoire et de littérature orientale; Rečnik kosovsko-metohiskog dijalekta, Beograd, 1932-1935 (Srpski dijalektološki zbornik); Stručnost i objektivnost dr. Henrika Barića, redovnog profesora za uporednu gramatiku indoevropskih jezika na Univerzitetu u Beogradu, Beograd, 1936; Turski spomenici / sabrao, sredio, preveo, protumačio i objavio Gliša Elezić, Beograd, 1940 (Zbornik za istočnjačku istorijsku i književnu građu = Recueil de matériaux d'histoire et de littérature orientale); Turski spomenici u Skoplju.

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Serbian historian and member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts (1879–1960)

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Gligorije Elezović was born on 18 January 1879 in Vushtrri.

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Gligorije Elezović died on 17 October 1960 in Belgrade.

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Gligorije Elezović was a historian and translator.

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Gligorije Elezović was Serbian.

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· Wikidata: Q794074

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