Živojin Djordjević
Živojin M. Djordjević (Serbian Cyrillic: Живојин Ђорђевић; Požarevac, Principality of Serbia, 9 April 1872 - Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia, 27 November 1957) was a biologist, zoologist and professor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Belgrade, and a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.[1]
Biography[edit]
Born in Požarevac to father Mihajlo, a merchant, and mother Katarina, a housewife, née Jocković. He graduated from the Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the Visoka škola in Belgrade and studied in Geneva with the most famous European zoologists, Karl Vogt and Emil Jung, where he received his doctorate in 1895. After finishing school, he taught zoology at the Grande école, and in 1898 he was elected associate professor, and then at the newly-founded University of Belgrade. From 1899, he took over the management of the Zoological Institute, where he carried out a radical reform of biology teaching by introducing new subjects: General Zoology, Comparative Anatomy, Cytology, Histology, Embryology, and Practical Exercises and Knowledge of Microscopic Methods, Techniques, and Procedures.[2]
He dealt with faunistic, studying different groups of animals (amphibians, reptiles, shrimps) and the problems of applied sciences (parasitology, epidemiology, fishing, zootechnics). He is the founder of the Oceanographic Institute in Split and the Hydrobiological Institute at Lake Ohrid, now in North Macedonia, and he is one of the founders of the Faculty of Medicine, Agriculture, and Veterinary Medicine. He was a corresponding member of the Serbian Royal Academy since 1906 and a full member since 1922, a corresponding member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, a member of the Czech Biological Society, and the Russian Shevchenko Academy, and later president of the Yugoslav Biological Society[3].
Živojin Đorđević is considered a pioneer of research work in the field of hydrobiology in Southeast Europe, he is the founder of modern zoology in Serbia and the creator of Serbian biological scientific terminology. He has published numerous scientific and professional papers and is the author of three textbooks: Systematics of vertebrates and invertebrates, Zoology I, Zoology II[4].
He was the first dean of the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Belgrade in 1936/1937. He was the dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade in 1919/1920[5].
He died in Belgrade in 1957.[6]
Literature[edit]
- Božidar P. M. Ćurčić: "Živojin M. Djordjević (1872-1957)", pages 127-197, in the book "Life and work of Serbian scientists", volume 8, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2002. COBISS.SR 184145671
References[edit]
- Translated from Serbian Wikipedia: Живојин Ђорђевић
- ↑ "Члан САНУ". archive.ph. December 21, 2012.
- ↑ http://srpskaenciklopedija.org/doku.php?id=%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%98%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D1%92%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%92%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%9B
- ↑ http://srpskaenciklopedija.org/doku.php?id=%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%98%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D1%92%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%92%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%9B
- ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivana-Novcic/publication/47367567_List_of_Strigiformes_species_in_the_Belgrade_Natural_History_Museum_bird_collection/links/5ca5f0af4585157bd32083ef/List-of-Strigiformes-species-in-the-Belgrade-Natural-History-Museum-bird-collection.pdf
- ↑ name="auto"
- ↑ http://srpskaenciklopedija.org/doku.php?id=%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%98%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D1%92%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%92%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%9B
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