Viktor NOVAK Historian; (b. Stubica Donja, 04 February 1889 – d. Belgrade, 01 January 1977)

University professor: Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, full professor from 1945; director of the Institute of History of SAS, 1947-1954.

Membership of SASA: Department of Social Sciences; corresponding member from 18 March 1948; full member from  20 December 1961; Department of Historical Sciences; full member from 11 March 1971; Department of Social Sciences, secretary from 7 April 1966 until 25 February 1969.

Accession speech: The Legacy of Yugoslav Historiography and its Attitude toward World Science. Posebna izdanja / SANU. Spomenica. 354:19 (1962) 27-42.

Membership of SASA boards: Interacademy Board for Medieval Latin Dictionary; Interacademy Board for Medieval Latin Inscriptions in the South Slavs; Interacademy Board for Ancient Inscriptions in the South Slavs; Interacademy Board for Compilation of Historic-Geographic Dictionary and Atlas of the South Slavonic Countries

Awards and recognitions:  the 7^th July Award of Serbia, 1960; Order of St. Sava of the fifth degree; fourth degree and third degree; Medal of the Merit to the People, 1964; Order of Labour with red banner, 1961

Obituary: God. / SANU 84 (1978) 507-508 (Momčilo Spremić)