Milan Budimir 1588541 143783933 2007-07-10T18:39:32Z Bart133 134523 bypass redirects, Replaced: [[Apennines]] → [[Apennine Mountains|Apennines]] using [[Project:AWB|AWB]] [[Image:MilanBudimir 67 w.jpg|thumb|right|''professor Milan Budimir'' ]] '''Milan Budimir''' (Милан Будимир) ([[1891]]-[[1975]]) the most distinguished [[Serbians|Serbian]] [[classical scholar]]{{Fact|date=April 2007}}, professor of the Faculty of Philosophy, [[Belgrade University]] and head of the Department of the Classical philology. ==Life== Budimir was born in [[Mrkonjic Grad|Mrkonjić Grad]] now in [[Republika Srpska]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]. He was educated in [[Sarajevo]], studied the Classical philology at the [[University of Vienna]] where he received his PhD in 1920. He was appointed the assistant the same year and soon the assistant professor at ''the Department of Classical Philology of the Faculty of Philosophy'' in Belgrade, than he was appointed Senior lecturer in 1928 and full professor in 1938. As the professor and the head of the Department of the Classical Philology he worked until retirement in 1962, with interruptions during the German occupation in [[World War II]]. As a researcher of high rank he was elected a corresponding member of the [http://www.sanu.ac.yu/English/SASA.htm| Serbian Academy of Sciences and Art] in 1948 and became a regular member of the same Academy in 1955. Budimir died in Belgrade on 17th October, 1975. Milan Budimir did research in the field of classical philology in all its branches: history of classical languages, especially [[History of the Greek language|Old Greek]], [[Greek literature|history of Old Greek]] and [[Latin literature|Roman literature]]. He also did research of the Old Balkan and [[Slavic languages]], the [[History of religions|history of religion]], the heritage of the classical period in Serbia and Balkans, especially in language, literature and [[folklore]], as well as the research in the field of [[Linguistics|lingustics]]. He started and edited the Balkan magazine ''Revue internationale des etudes balkaniques'' along with Petar Skok between the wars. Budimir was a founder and co-editor ot the former main journal of Yugoslav philologists ''[http://www.antiquitasviva.edu.mk/default.asp?t=1 The Living Classical Periods]'' with the most distinguished Yugoslav classical philologists. The library of this blind scholar is at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and the Arts, Belgrade, where it is accorded a separate division among the special collections [http://www.bib.sanu.ac.yu/eng/Posebne.htm]. The special library for the blind in Belgrade is named for Milan Budimir. ==Currents of pre-Indo-European Researches== The scientific opus of Milan Budimir includes several hundreds of works, books, studies, treatises and articles which may be divided into five big groups. '''The first''' group consists of the works dealing with the research of [[Proto-Indo-European language|pre-classical languages]] and cultures in the [[Balkans]], [[Asia Minor]] and the [[Apennine Mountains|Apennines]]. Milan Budimir's chief merit in this field relates to the gathering and explaining of the volumnious lexical material of the languages of the [[pre-Indo-European|pre-Greek Indo- Europeans]], as well as to the establishing of the phonetic laws of these languages. According to the literary tradition, these, pre- Greek ancients are called the [[Pelasgian]]s (Πελασγοί), but Milan Budimir calls them (Πελάσται), proceeding from the form Πελαστικέ (which appears in the scholias of [[Homer]]'s [[Iliad]] 16, 223), from the onomastic material in the field (Παλαιστή, toponym in [[Epirus (region)|Epirus]]; Palaestinus, older name for [[Strymon]] etc.), as well as from some common nouns proved by evidence (Πενέσται, name for the conquered population in classical [[Thessaly]]; Πελάσται, name for the farmers bound to the land in [[Attic]]). '''The second''' group consists of the works presenting the research concerning special relations between the [[pre-Indo-European|pre-Greek]] idioms and the [[Slavonic languages]]; more precisely, the ProtoSlavonic language. '''The third''' group consists of the works dealing with the research of the general phonetic laws of the [[Indo-European languages]], especially of the languages in contact. '''The fourth''' group consists of the works dealing with the research in the field of classical literature, with special emphasis on the [[pre-Indo-European|pre-Greek]] origin of some literary genres and the European scene. '''The fifth''' group consists of the works researching the cultural relations in the folklore of the [[South Slavic languages|South Slavs]] and the classical peoples; these works are in close connection with the second group of Budimir's works. ''(Currents of pre-Indo-European Researches - Source: Pelastian Proto-Slavonic Reletions According to the Researches of Milan Budinir by [[Ljiljana Crepajac]], PhD)'' ==Selected works== Milan Budimir presented and published results of his research which entered the best-known dictionaries and reference books in more than two hundred articles, discussions, studies and books with the following being the most important (titles given in English do not necessarily mean that an actual English translation has been published): *From the Classical and Contemporary Aloglotty ([[1933]]), *On the [[Iliad]] and its Poet ([[1940]]), *''Grci i Pelasgi'' ("The Greeks and the Pelasgians"), Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Department of Literature and Language, book 2, Belgrade ([[1950]]). *The Problem of Beech and Protoslav Homeland ([[1951]]), *Pelasto - Slavica ([[1956]]), *Die Sprache als Schopfoung und Entwicklung ([[1957]]), *Protoslavica ([[1958]]), *Zur psychologischen Einheit unserer Ilias ([[1963]]), *From the Balkan Sources ([[1969]]). [[Category:Serbian classical scholars|Budimir, Milan]] [[Category:1891 births|Budimir, Milan]] [[Category:1975 deaths|Budimir, Milan]] [[sr:Милан Будимир]]