Blaže KONESKI Linguist and literary historian; (b. Nebregovo, Prilep, 19 December 1921 – d. Skopje, 7 December 1993)

University professor; Faculty of Philosophy (Philology) in Skopje; head of the Department of the Macedonian Language; dean, rector of the University (1958 – 1960)

Membership of SASA: Department of Literature and Language = Department of Language and Literature: corresponding member from 5 December 1963; external member from 7 May 1976  pursuant to the Law on SASA.

Accession speech: Department paper presentation: Za neki morfološki prečki na fonetskite promeni vo makedonskiot jazik. Posebna izdanja / SANU. Spomenica. 377 : 26 (1964) 99-109.

Membership of SASA boards: Interacademy Board for Compilation of Linguistic and Dialectological Atlases

Awards and recognitions: dr. h. c. of the universities of Chicago, Wrocław and  Kraków. AVNOJ Award, 1966; Herder Prize, 1971; October Prize of Macedonia, 1965; special Vuk’s Prize 1987; Njegoš Prize, 1975, etc. Order of the Merit to the People with golden star; Order of the Republic with golden wreath, etc.

Obituary: God. / SANU 100 (1994) 477-481 (R. V. Ivanović)

Photograph: SANU F-573