Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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The Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian
Bosnian language
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 and Croatian
Croatian language
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: Akademija nauka i umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine Serbian
Serbian language
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: Академија Наука и Умјетности Босне и Херцеговине) is the national academy
National academy
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 of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

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History

The Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina arose out of the Scientific Society, founded in 1951, by the decision of the Assembly of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the highest state authority in the country, on the formation of the Scientific Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Scientific Society continued to operate as the highest-level institution concerned with science until the Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina passed a Law on the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1966. The Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina is charged, pursuant to this Law, with responsibility for the overall development of science and the arts, with organizing scientific research and arts-related events, with publishing papers written by its members and associates, and in general with the state of science and the arts and their development in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Academy is a wholly independent body, governed solely by the principles and interests of science and the independent convictions of its members. The Academy's Statute governs all aspects of its organization, management and operations in all the fields in which it is active.

Departments

The Academy is made up of six departments:
  • Social sciences
  • Medicine sciences
  • Technical sciences
  • Natural sciences and mathematics
  • Literature
  • Arts

Committees

Committees include:
  • Library and documentation
  • Council for international cooperation
  • Publication council
  • Scientific, technological and social development

Presidents

  • Vaso Butozan (1966–1968)
  • Branislav Đurđev (1968–1971)
  • Edhem Čamo (1971–1977)
  • Alojz Benac (1977–1981)
  • Svetozar Zimonjić (1981–1990)
  • Seid Huković (1990–1999)
  • Božidar Matić (1999–present)

Honorary members

  • Josip Broz Tito
    Josip Broz Tito
    Marshal Josip Broz Tito – 4 May 1980) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian, Tito was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad, viewed as a unifying symbol for the nations of the Yugoslav federation...

     elected 19 November 1969
  • Ivo Andrić
    Ivo Andric
    Ivan "Ivo" Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under the Ottoman Empire...

     elected 23 December 1969
  • Rodoljub Čolaković
    Rodoljub Colakovic
    Rodoljub Čolaković was a Bosnian Serb and Yugoslav politician.A native of Bijeljina, Rodoljub Čolaković joined Socialist Party of Bosnia-Herzegovina in March 1919 as a student. Later he joined Crvena pravda, left-wing terrorist organisation in assassination of Yugoslav interior minister Milorad...

     elected 23 December 1969
  • Edvard Kardelj
    Edvard Kardelj
    Edvard Kardelj also known under the pseudonyms Sperans and Krištof was a Yugoslav communist political leader, economist, partisan, publicist, and full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts...

     elected 29 April 1971
  • Vladimir Bakarić
    Vladimir Bakaric
    Dr. Vladimir Bakarić was a Croatian communist and a politician in Socialist Yugoslavia.Bakarić helped organize Partisan resistance in Croatia during World War II. From 1948 to 1969 he was the chairman of the Croatian League of Communists, and as such was a close collaborator of President Josip...

     elected 18 April 1974
  • Ivan Supek
    Ivan Supek
    Ivan Supek was a Croatian physicist, philosopher, writer, playwright, peace activist and humanist.-Early years and education:Supek was born on April 8, 1915 in Zagreb, Croatia...

     elected 14 May 2002
  • Bogdan Bogdanović
    Bogdan Bogdanović
    Bogdan Bogdanović was a Serbian architect, urbanist and essayist. He taught architecture at the University of Belgrade, where he also served as dean...

     elected 14 May 2002
  • Adil Zulfikarpašić
    Adil Zulfikarpašic
    Adil Zulfikarpašić was a prominent Bosniak politician and intellectual.-Biography:Adil Zulfikarpašić was born in Foča, a town along the River Drina in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia ....

    elected 14 May 2002

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