Vladimir Ćorović
Vladimir Ćorović (Владимир Ћоровић) (1885-1941) is the most significant Serbian historian of great syntheses, with the Viennese Ph.D. of Philosophical studies (1908).
Vladimir Ćorović was born in Mostar (then Austria-Hungary, now Bosnia and Herzegovina) to a Serb family. During World War I he was sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment. He was professor of Serbian history at the Belgrade University since 1919, and Rector of the University in the 1934/1935 and 1935/1936 academic years.
His scientific interest is amazing: beginning from the interpretations of the ancient Greek and Serbian records, then medieval historiography and monographs about the monasteries of the Serbian Bosnia (Tvrdoš, Duži, Zavala) to the relations between the Serbs in Montenegro and Moslems in the Albanian region (the Montenegrins and Albania).
However, his work about the crimes against the Serbs in the World War I (The Black Book) seems unpassing because of the constant historical attack of quasi-Christians on the Orthodox Serbs, as well as the still relevant voluminous The History of the Serbs.
The Holy Mountain and Chilandar was published by the Chilandar brethren in 1985. Ćorović did not manage to finish this manuscript or to do the pre-press because he died in a plane crash on 16th April, 1941. Since Ćorović's unfinished manuscript was untitled, the Chilandar inhabitants decided to use the variant of the descriptive exactness of the manuscript itself (Holy Mountain and Chilandar until the 16th Century), although bibliographies show the abridged title.
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- The names of the martyrs for the idea must be disclosed and recorded on the pages of the history of this movement, which, like all those until now, will confirm how this phenomenon has continually repeated itself in our past and has almost acquired the form of a periodical national event. — Vladimir Ćorović, The Black Book