Mita KOSTIĆ Historian; (b. Sremska Mitrovica, 4 March 1886 – d. Belgrade, 11 April 1980)

University professor: Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje, full professor (1932–1945), Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad (1954–1957); director of the Historical Institute of SAS (1958–1961)

Membership of SASA: Department of Social Sciences; corresponding member from 14 June 1955; full member from 5 December 1963; Department of Historical Sciences; full member from 11 March 1971

Accession speech: West-European Cultural and Historical Crossroads of Serbs in the 18^th Century. Posebna izdanja/SANU. Spomenica. 377:26 (1964) 121–129.

Biography and bibliography: God./SANU 64 (1958) 302–308; 69 (1964) 405; 70 (1965) 359; 71 (1968) 366; 84 (1978) 385–386.

Awards and recognitions: Order of Labour of the first degree, 1961

Obituary: God./SANU 87 (1981) 467–469 (V. Stojančević)

Photograph: SANU F- 580/1–2