OBREN BLAGOJEVIĆ
Jurist;
(b. Duluth (Minnesota), 14 November 1912 – d. Belgrade, 30 November 2001)

Governor of the National Bank of FPR Yugoslavia and other state positions (1944−1948); principal research fellow of the Institute of Agricultural Economics (1956−1965); university professor of the Faculty of Law and Economics in Niš (1969−1977)

Membership of SASA: Department of Social Sciences; corresponding member from 21 March 1974; full member from 7 May 1981; deputy secretary of the Department of Social Sciences (1977−1981); member of the Managing Board of the SASA Fund for Scientific Research (1977-1986)

Accession speech: Economic Thinkers in the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and its Predecessors over the Course of 100 Years of its Development 1841−1941. Glas/SANU. Department of Social Sciences. 336:23 (1983) 1−12. Delivered on 24 March 1982

Biographies, bibliographies: Godišnjak/SANU 83 (1976) 169−174; 89 (1983) 283−291; 95 (1989) 413−418; 104 (1998) 391−396.

Membership of SASA boards: Commission for Economic Sciences, member (1978); Board for Ethnography, president (1988−1994); Board for Philosophy and Sociological Theory, member (from 1976); Board for Rural Issues, member (from 1983); Board for the History of Serbian Revolution 1804-1830; Interacademy Board for the Study of National Minorities in Serbia, member (1979); Interdepartmental Board for the Study of Patriarchal Societies and Cultures, member (from 1980); Interacademy Board for the Study of Combined Agricultural and Non-agricultural Households, member (from 1987); Interacademy Board for Economic Research, member (from 1984); Managing Board of the SASA Fund for Scientific Research, member

Awards and recognitions:  Commemorative Medal of the Partisans (1941); October Prize of the City of  Niš; 13th July Award of SR Montenegro; Order of Bravery; Order of Brotherhood and Unity of the first degree; Order of the Merit to the People of the second degree

Obituary: Godišnjak/SANU 108 (2002) 473−475 (K. Mihajlović)

Photograph: SANU-F 460