IVAN KLAJN
Linguist
Belgrade, 31 January 1937 - Belgrade, 31 March 2021

Full member

Department of Language and Literature

 

Membership of SASA
Corresponding member from 26 October 2000;
Full member since  30 October 2003

Field of study
Linguistics (general and prescriptive linguistics, Italian studies)

Education
BA (1961); MA (1964); PhD (1970) Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade

Career
Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, full professor at the Department of the Italian studies (1984), retired (2002)

Membership of editorial boards
Jezik danas [Language Today] (journal of Matica Srpska), editor-in-chief

Awards and recognitions
Annual award of  RTV Beograd for the contribution to the culture of speech, 1977;
Award of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy (for the Italian-Serbian Dictionary), 1998;
Orden Italian star of solidarity (Ordine della Stella della Solidarietà italiana), bestowed by the president of the Republic of Italy, 2004;
Recognition of gratitude of the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade for the contribution to the Italian and Linguistic Studies, 2012;
Matica Srpska Recognition of achievement for the cultivation of the Serbian language culture, 2012;
Sretenje Medal of the 3rd order, 2015.

Biographies and bibliographies
Yearbook / SASA 107 (2001)