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Jovan Cvijić
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1865-10-11 ) 11 October 1865, Loznica , Principality of Serbia
- Died
- 16 January 1927 (1927-01-16) (aged 61), Belgrade , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
- Resting place
- New Cemetery , Belgrade, Serbia
- Alma mater
- Belgrade Higher School , University of Vienna
- Fields
- Geography , geology , folklore
- Doctoral advisor
- Albrecht Penck
- Notable students
- Pavle Vujević
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jovan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
- Place of birth
- Loznica
- Place of death
- Belgrade
- Occupation
- geologist
- Educated at
- First Belgrade Gymnasium
- Employer
- University of Belgrade
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Serbian Orthodox Church
- Field of work
- geomorphology
- Image
- Јован Цвијић, географ (1865-1927).jpg
- Work location
- Serbia
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- Commons category
- Jovan Cvijić
- date of birth
- 1865-10-12
- date of death
- 1927-01-16
- member of
- Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Commons Creator page
- Jovan Cvijić
- name in native language
- Јован Цвијић
- place of burial
- Belgrade New Cemetery
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- influenced by
- William Morris Davis
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Encyclopedic overview
Jovan Cvijić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Цвијић, pronounced [jǒʋan tsʋǐːjitɕ]; 11 October [O.S. 29 September] 1865 – 16 January 1927) was a Serbian geographer, ethnologist, university professor and academic.
He was the president of the Serbian Royal Academy of Sciences and rector of the University of Belgrade. Cvijić is considered the founder of geography in Serbia. He began his scientific career as a geographer and geologist, and continued his activity as a human geographer and sociologist. He initiated the Serbian Ethnographic Collection (Srpski etnološki zbornik), within which 102 books were published, representing a unique scientific and interdisciplinary project on a global scale. Jovan Cvijić received numerous awards and medals, both domestically and internationally, for his work.
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