Miroslav Marcovich

Blagoje Pantelich, Dijak Miroslav (in Serbian)

Miroslav Marcovich (March 18, 1919 June 14, 2001)

was a Serbian-American philologist and university professor. 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, expert in Byzantine studies. He
served in the army 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. In 1955 he moved to Mrida 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 (197377), and taught there until his
retirement in 1989. He also founded Illinois Classical
Studies (Scholars Press) and served as its editor for 12
years. During those years he was a visiting professor at
the University of Michigan, University of North Carolina,
Trinity College, Dublin, and was an Einstein Visiting Fellow in Tel Aviv. During his lifetime Marcovich wrote
and edited 45 books, including critical editions of the
fragments of Heraclitus, of the Vitae philosophorum of
Diogenes Laertius [2 v., Bibliotheca Teubneriana, 1999
(+ Indices, conf. H. Gaertner, 2002)] and the BhagavadGita and 248 articles and essays in Spanish, German, Italian, French and Serbo-Croatian. He died June 14, 2001
at the Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana, Illinois.[1]

References

[1] Obituary at news.illinois.edu (June 21, 2001.

Sources
Fernando Bez, Una Semblanza de Miroslav Marcovich in Miroslav Marcovich, Bhagavadgita: El
Canto del Seor (Mrida: ULA 2003).

External links
List of Marcovichs publications at the University
of Illinois (Originally published in Illinois Classical
Studies 18:1993, pp. 1-17).
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