The Faculty of Philology is one of the constituent schools of the University of Belgrade

University of Belgrade

The University of Belgrade is the oldest and largest university of Serbia.Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-based departments into a single university...

. The school's purpose is to train and educate its students in the academic study or practice in linguistics

Linguistics

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 and philology

Philology

Philology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin...

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History

The study of philology was established in Belgrade

Belgrade

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 within the Belgrade Higher School's Department of Philosophy in 1808. The Department of Philology gained independence from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy

University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy

The University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Serbia, founded in the early 19th century within the Belgrade Higher School...

 in 1960. Foremost Belgrade academics in this field include authorities, such as Đura Daničić and Stojan Novaković

Stojan Novakovic

Stojan Novaković , was a Serbian literary critic, scholar, politician and diplomat, and the foremost Serbian historian of nineteenth century, holding the post of Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Serbia on two occasions.He was born in the western Serbian city of Šabac and died in the southern city of...

. Many eminent international philologists contributed to the development of the Faculty of Philology, e.g. Russian Slavist Platon Kulikovsky, who was a visiting professor at the Higher School between 1877 and 1882, was the founder of Russian studies in Serbia; Englishman David Law started teaching English language and literature classes in 1907 and paved the way for the English Department (founded in 1929). Bruno Gujon from Italy worked at the Faculty from 1912 to 1914 and paved the way for Italian studies. During the post Second World War period the school established new departments, e.g. Romanian Language

Romanian language

Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...

 and Literature (1963), Spanish Language

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 and Literature (1971), Arabic and Turkish Language

Turkish language

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 and Literature Departments (1960), Chinese Language

Chinese language

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 and Literature (1974), Japanese Language

Japanese language

is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

 and Literature (1985), Scandinavian Languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian in 1986, starting with Norwegian

Norwegian language

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 Lectorate in 1979), Lectorates for Dutch

Dutch language

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 (1987), Ukrainian

Ukrainian language

Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....

 (1989), Hebrew (1990), Library Science Department (1963), General Linguistics

Linguistics

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 Department (1990), Hungarian

Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

 Studies Department (1994), Greek Language

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

 and Literature Department (1995), et at.

Organization

The school is divided into departments, including: Romance Studies, Iberian Studies, Italian Studies, Oriental Studies, Library Science and Information Technology, General Linguistics, Central and South-East Europe Studies, and 8.Social Sciences and Humanities Seminar.
The departments offer academic courses in Serbian

Serbian language

Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....

, Slavic

Slavic languages

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, Bulgarian

Bulgarian language

Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the...

, Russian

Russian language

Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

, Polish

Polish language

Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

, Czech

Czech language

Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...

, Slovakian, Ukrainian

Ukrainian language

Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....

, Italian language

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

, French language

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

, Romanian language

Romanian language

Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...

, Spanish language

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

, German language

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

, Scandinavian languages, Dutch

Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...

, English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, Arabic

Arabic language

Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...

, Turkish language

Turkish language

Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...

, Oriental philology, Japanese

Japanese language

is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

, Chinese

Chinese language

The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...

, Albanian

Albanian language

Albanian is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, southern Serbia and northwestern Greece...

, Greek

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

, Hungarian

Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

, General linguistics

Linguistics

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, and library studies. A number of other languages are available as minor fields of study.

Department libraries

All school's departments possess their own libraries with unique collections built up over the years. In year 2000 the stock of all libraries comprised about 600 thousand items.

Periodical publications

The school's most known periodicals include: Prilozi za književnost, jezik, istoriju i folklor (as of 1921), Anali Filološkog fakulteta (1961) and Filološki pregled (as of 1997).

Research centers

The school hosts several centers, such as: Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies Center, International Center for Slavic Studies, Center for Serbian as a Foreign Language, Publishing, Science and Research Center, and East Asian Studies Center.

Notable faculty and alumni

Famous scholars and better-known students include: Jovan Cvijić

Jovan Cvijic

Jovan Cvijić was a Serbian geographer, president of the Serbian Royal Academy of Sciences, and rector of the University of Belgrade. A world-renowned scientist, Cvijić is considered the founder of geography in Serbia.-Early life and family:Jovan Cvijić was born on October 11 Jovan Cvijić...

, Mihailo Petrović

Mihailo Petrovic

Mihailo Petrović Alas , was an influential Serbian mathematician and inventor. He was also a distinguished professor at Belgrade University, an academic of the Serbian Royal Academy, and a fisherman. He was a student of Henri Poincaré, Charles Hermite and Charles Émile Picard...

, Milan Budimir

Milan Budimir

Milan Budimir was the most distinguished Serbian classical scholar, professor of the Serbian philosopher and Chair of the Department of the Classical Philology.-Life:...

, Milka Canić

Milka Canic

Milka Canić is the supervisor of the popular Serbian TV quiz show "TV Slagalica" ."TV Slagalica" is aired every day at 19:00 CET on RTS channel 1.- Career :...

, Radoje Domanović

Radoje Domanovic

Radoje Domanović was a Serbian writer and teacher, most famous for his satirical short stories. His few remaining years were a constant fight against consumption...

, Ljiljana Crepajac

Ljiljana Crepajac

Ljiljana Crepajac is a Serbian classical scholar, philologist, a full-time professor at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy on the subject Historical grammar of Old Greek; she is the head of the Department of Classical Sciences , and she has been a full professor since 1987.Crepajac...

, Veselin Čajkanović

Veselin Cajkanovic

Veselin Čajkanović was a Serbian classical scholar, religious history scholar, and Greek and Latin translator.-Biography:...

, Borislav Jovanović

Borislav Jovanović

Borislav Jovanović , Montenegrin writer, poet, author essays and literary critic....

, Ivan Klajn

Ivan Klajn

Ivan Klajn is a Serbian linguist, philologist and language historian, with primary interest in Romance languages and Serbian...

, Dragan Lukić

Dragan Lukic

Dragan Lukić , was a Serbian children's writer.He was born in Belgrade. His mother's name was Tomanija, and his father, Aleksandar, was a pressman, so young Dragan acquired affection for books since earliest age.In 1946 he started to publish, and during the 1950s he became a known children's poet...

, Milan Milišić

Milan Milišic

Milan Milišić was a poet and playwright from the former Yugoslavia of Yugoslavian ethnicity. He wrote several volumes of poetry and translated, among others, J. R. R...

, Désirée Miloshevic

Désirée Miloshevic

Désirée Zeljka Miloshevic is an Internet public servant, and was a special advisor to the chair of theUnited Nations' Internet Governance Forum Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group...

, Nikola Milošević

Nikola Miloševic (politician)

Nikola Milošević, PhD was a Serbian writer, political philosopher, literary critic, and politician....

, Asim Peco

Asim Peco

Dr. Asim Peco is a renowned Bosnian linguist, academician, professor, author and editor.Peco's work is credited for the development of Bosnian and Herzegovinian linguistics. His areas of specialization include dialectology of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, namely the Štokavian and Torlakian...

, Goran Petrović

Goran Petrovic

Goran Petrović is one of the most significant and most widely read among contemporary Serbian writers. He studied Yugoslav and Serbian literature at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology. He works as a librarian in a city library in Žiča, very close to Žiča Monastery...

, Aleksandar Prokopiev

Aleksandar Prokopiev

Aleksandar Prokopiev born on February 24, 1953 in Skopje is a Macedonian Ph.D. in comparative literature and literary theory working in the Institute of Macedonian Literature at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, the Republic of Macedonia...

, Slobodan Rakitić

Slobodan Rakitic

Slobodan Rakitić is a Serbian writer and politician.Rakitić was born on September 30, 1940 in Vlasovo, Prokuplje, Serbia. He visited the elementary school in Raška and the high school in Novi Pazar...

, Snežana Samardžić-Marković

Snežana Samardžic-Markovic

Snežana Samardžić-Marković is Minister of Youth and Sports in the Government of Serbia.- Biography :Samardžić-Marković graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology and is working on her MA thesis at the Faculty of Drama Arts...

, Meša Selimović

Meša Selimovic

Mehmed "Meša" Selimović was a Yugoslav writer. His novel Death and the Dervish is one of the most important literary works in post-war Yugoslavia. Some of the main themes in his works are relations between individual and authority, life and death, and other existential problems...

, Milovan Vitezović

Milovan Vitezović

Milovan Vitezović , is a Serbian writer, professor and screenwriter. He writes songs, novels, essays, reviews, aphorisms, movies and TV scripts...

 and Zoran Živković

Zoran Živkovic (writer)

Zoran Živković is a writer, essayist, researcher, publisher and translator from Belgrade, Serbia , where he still resides.-Biography:...

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External links

• Official website (in Serbian, English)