MIHAILO APOSTOLSKI
Historian and army officer
(b. Štip, 8 November 1906 – d. Skopje, 07 August 1987)

National service in Sarajevo, colonel-general: commander (1946–1952); Military High School, chief (1952–1955); chief of infantry of YNA (Yugoslav National Army) (1955–1958); head of the Institute of National History in Skopje (1965–1970)

Membership of SASA: Department of Social Sciences: corresponding member from 7 March 1968; Department of Historical Sciences; corresponding member ‘from other republics’ from 11 March 1971

Accession speech: Department paper presentation: National Liberation Fight for the Affirmation of the Macedonian Language. Posebna izdanja / SANU. Spomenica. 434 : 44 (1970) 99–114. Paper presentation was not delivered but it was a contribution to Spomenica.

Biography, bibliography: Godišnjak/SANU. 74 (1971) 536–542.

Awards and recognitions: the 7th July Award (1969); the 22nd December Award (1972); AVNOJ Award (1978); Albanian Commemorative Medal 1941, National Hero Order, Order of National Liberation, Order of Brotherhood and Unity,  Order of the Merit to the People, Order of the Republic

Obituary: Godišnjak/SANU 94 (1988) 467–468 (Jordan Pop-Jordanov).

Photograph: SANU-F 441