Dejan MEDAKOVIĆ
Art historian;
(b. Zagreb, 07 July 1922 – d. Belgrade, 01 July 2008) 

Professor of the Faculty of Philosophy, full professor from 1967

Membership of SASA: Department of Historical Sciences; corresponding member from 27 April 1972; full member from 7 May 1981 – Department of Historical Sciences, secretary from 19 November 1981 until 14 November 1985; SASA general secretary from 14 November 1985 until 24 March 1994; SASA president from 11 February 1999 until 3 April 2003

Accession speech: Serbian Revival in the 18th Century and Medieval Heritage. Glas / SANU. Department of Historical Sciences. 334, 4 (1983) 37-50. Speech delivered on 24 March 1982

Biography and bibliography: Bibliografija naučnih i stručnih radova i publ. priloga akademika Dejana Medakovića: u čast sedamdest godina života. – Izdanja Biblioteke / SANU. 6 (1992). Bibliografija radova dr Dejana Medakovića. – Spomenica: zbornik MS za likovne umetnosti, 8(1972) 1-19. God. / SANU 81(1976) 211-224; 88(1982) 269-272; 95(1989) 419-448; 104(1998) 403-414

Membership of SASA boards: Board for the History of Art; Board for the History of the 19th century Serbia; Szentendre Board; Board for the History of Serbian Revolution 1804-1830; Chilandar Board; Board for the History of Serbs in Croatia; Board for Romanticism; Old Slavonic Board; Board for Renaissance and Baroque; Interdepartmental Board for the Study of Kosovo; Board for Reprint Editions; Board for the Dictionary of Fine Arts Terms; Board for the History of Serbian Music

Awards and recognitions: the 7th July Award of Serbia, 1989; Herder’s Prize, Gindely Prize, Vienna, 1990; October Prize of the City of Belgrade, 1990; special Vuk’s Prize, 1996; Prosveta Annual Award 2001; Order of Saint Sava of the first degree, 1990; Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1996; Cross of Honour for Science and Art of the first order of the Republic of Austria, 1996; Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Hungary; Medal of Vuk Karadžić, I degree; Crown of Despot Stefan Lazarević, Kruševac