Smail Balić
Smail Balić | |
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Born |
Mostar, Kingdom of Yugoslavia | 26 August 1920
Died |
14 March 2002 81) Vienna, Austria | (aged
Ethnicity | Bosniak |
Smail Balić (26 August 1920 – 14 March 2002)[1] was a Bosnian-Austrian historian, culturologist and scholar of Bosniak ethnicity. Most of his life was spent abroad. He was employed at various archival and historicist positions, especially in German-speaking countries. Until 1986 he performed a number of significant scientific and archival functions such as a researcher of the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Goethe University Frankfurt, a member of the Association of Austrian writers, and a corresponding member of the Jordanian Islamic Academy science. He died in Vienna in 2002.
Biography
Balić was born 26 August 1920 (although a few sources give 20 August 1920) in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina to a Muslim Bosniak family.
In 1995, Balić received the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class[2]
Bibliography
- Kultura Bošnjaka (1973)[3]
- Ruf vom Minaret (1984)
- Das unbekannte Bosnien (1992)
References
- ↑ "BALIC, Prof. dr. Smail". Bošnjaci. 20 March 2002. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
- ↑ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (pdf) (in German). p. 977. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
- ↑ "Bošnjastvo se usijeca u svijest ljudi". Most. Retrieved 7 February 2014.