ALEKSANDAR BELIĆ
Linguist and Slavonic scholar;
(b. Belgrade, 2 August 1876 – d. Belgrade, 26 February 1960)

PhD in Slavonic philology and university professor (Belgrade)

Membership of Serbian Royal Academy (SRA): Academy of Philosophical Sciences; corresponding member from 4 February 1905; full member (from 3 February 1906); interim secretary (SRA) from 10 September until 5 November 1923; acting secretary from 5 November 1923 until 17 February 1937; dismissed on 1 March 1937; president of SRA from 17 February 1937 until 17 July 1947 (inactive from 4 November 1941 until 30 January 1945 and from 25 April until 17 July 1947)

Membership of SASA: Department of Literature and Language; full member from 22 March 1948; secretary of the Academy of Philosophical Sciences from 22 March 1913 until 6 March 1924; SAS president from 17 July 1947 until 26 February 1960; member of the Administrative Board of the Academy from 3 May until 17 July 1947; president of the same board from 6 May until 17 July 1947

Accession speech: Basic Characteristics of the Serbian Language Historical Development. Printed in (SKA) Godišnjak  22 (1909) 106–110 [excerpt]. Delivered on 14 December 1908 ((SKA) Godišnjak 22 (1909) 105–110)

Biographies, bibliographies: (SKA) Godišnjak  18 (1905) 367–368. – Spomenica o otvaranju Univerziteta. Belgrade 1906, 116–117. – Zbornik filoloških i lingvističkih studija. A. Beliću povodom 25-godišnjice. Belgrade 1921, XIV–XVIII (X. Barić). – (SKA) Godišnjak 43 (1935) 179–214. – Zbornik filoloških i lingvističkih rasprava. A. Beliću o 40-godišnjici njegova naučnog rada. Belgrade 1937, IX–XXXIII. – ZFF 4: 2 (1959) 441–444. – JF 24 (1959–1960) 49–84 (I. Grickat). – Zbornik radova o Aleksandru Beliću. PI SASA 498 (1976) 433–469 (I. Grickat). Izabrana dela A. Belića. book. 14. Pp. 305–349 (I. Grickat, S. Ilić). – LPJ 1 (M. lvić). – EJ 1 (M. Stevanović). – M. S. Moskovljević: Sećanje na jednu dijalektološku ekskurziju s profesorom Belićem. NJ, n. s 10 (1960) 81–83. – X. Kapidžić: Boravak profesora dr Aleksandra Belića u Hercegovini 1903. g. NJ, n. s 10 (1960) 84–87. – M. P. Nikolić: Prilozi upoznavanju života i rada Aleksandra Belića. NJ, n. s.: 11 (1961) 102–108; 14 (1964) 169–188. – M. R. Nikolić: Izbor Aleksandra Belića za akademika. NJ, n. s. 17 (1968–1969) 83–96. – M. Ivić, Pravci u lingvistici. 6. dop. izd. Belgrade 1990.

Obituary: SAN Glasnik 12 (1960) 1–11 (I. Đuričić, B. T. Blagojević, V. V. Vinograuntilv i M. Minić). – Politika 28. II 1960 (M. Stevanović). – Naši razgledi 9: 5 (1960) 109 (R. lvić). – Književna tribina 21 (1960) 4 (Lj. Jonke). – Slovansky, přehled 46: 2 (1960) (V. Havránek).

Photograph: SANU–F 190, 190/1–15, V