Miroslav Marcovich (March 18, 1919 – June 14, 2001) was a Serbian-American philologist and university professor.[1][2]
Miroslav Marcovich | |
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Born | (1919-03-18)18 March 1919 Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
Died | 14 June 2001(2001-06-14) (aged 82) Urbana, Illinois, US |
Marcovich was born in Belgrade, Serbia. He studied at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy graduating in 1942. In 1943, he served as the assistant to Georg Ostrogorsky, an expert in Byzantine studies. He fought with the Yugoslav Partisans under Josip Broz Tito during World War II between 1944 and 1946. In 1953, he traveled to India where he began working at Visva-Bharati University.[1][2]
In 1955, he moved to Mérida and worked as a professor of Ancient Greek and philosophy from 1955 to 1962 at the University of the Andes, Venezuela. In 1962, he taught at the University of Bonn invited by Hans Herter. Between 1963 and 1968, he taught at the University of Cambridge. He then moved in 1969 to the University of Illinois, Urbana, where he was the Head of the Department of Classics (1973–77), and taught there until his retirement in 1989.[1][2]
During those years he was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, University of North Carolina, Trinity College, Dublin, and was an Albert Einstein Visiting Fellow in Tel Aviv.[1][2]
Marcovich also founded the Illinois Classical Studies journal, and served as its editor for 12 years.[1][2]
During his lifetime Marcovich wrote and edited 45 books, including several critical editions, most notably from the fragments of Heraclitus, the Vitae philosophorum of Diogenes Laërtius (2 v., Bibliotheca Teubneriana, 1999 [+ Indices, conf. H. Gaertner, 2002]), the Greek novel De Rodanthes et Deosiclis amoribus by Theodorus Prodromus (Bibliotheca Teubneriana, 1992), and the Bhagavad-Gita and 248 articles and essays in Spanish, German, Italian, French and Serbo-Croatian.[1][2]
Marcovich died on 14 June, 2001 at the Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana, Illinois.[1][2]
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