Pejo Ćošković

Pejo Ćošković, born on 12 April 1952 in Domaljevac near Bosanski Šamac, is Bosnian medievalist and lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Sarajevo, Department of History, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He defended his doctoral thesis, entitled The structure of the "Bosnian Church" and its role in the XV. century, in 1988, in Belgrade. He completed his postdoctoral training as a scholarship holder of the Italian government in 1989 at the University of Roma, the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, the Department of Linguistics and Serbo-Croatian Literature.

Career He worked at the high school, the Institute of History and the Pedagogical Academy in Banja Luka. He works at the Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography in Zagreb. In 2002, he was elected assistant professor, and in 2006, associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo, where he teaches subjects from the history of medieval Bosnia.

He attended a number of international and domestic scientific conferences, presenting research papers. He has published papers in number of scientific journals, Prilozi of the Institute of History, Istorijski zbornik , Croatica Christiana Periodica, Radovi of the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo on subjects of History, Art History, Archaeology, and others. He has written three books as well as a large number of treatises, scientific articles, contributions and about 1000 encyclopedic entries.

Research interests History of Bosnia in the Middle Ages, Bosnian Church and its clergy including Vlatko Tumurlić, history of the Banja Luka region, history of Croatia in the Middle Ages, and lexicography.