Mladen LESKOVAC Literary historian and translator; (b. Stari Sivac (Kula municipality), 1 January 1904 – d. Novi Sad, 25 December 1990)

University professor: Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, full professor (from 1954), dean (1955/56)

Membership of SASA: Department of Language and Literature; corresponding member from 5 December 1963; full member from 28 May 1970

Accession speech: department paper presentation: The Issues of Assembling the History of Yugoslav Literature. Posebna izdanja / SANU. Spomenica 377: 26 (1964) 131–137. Speech: Jovan Pačić. Posebna izdanja / SANU. Spomenica. 452 : 55 (1972) 45–56.

Biography and bibliography: God. / SANU 70 (1965) 425–433; 85 (1979) 345–350; 96 (1990) 475–478.

Membership of SASA boards: Board for Critical Editions of Serbian Writers, president; Board for Romanticism and its Predecessors in Literature and Arts; Board for Reprint Editions

Awards and recognitions: Republic of Serbia Government award (1949); Union of Yugoslav Writers award (1954); October Prize of Novi Sad (1961); The 7th July Award of Serbia (1976); Vuk’s Endowment prize (1990); Order of Labour with red banner (1965)

Obituary: God. / SANU 97 (1991) 463–464 (D. Medaković)

Photograph: SANU F–599