Smail Balić Explained

Smail Balić
Birth Date:26 August 1920
Birth Place:Mostar, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Death Place:Vienna, Austria

Smail Balić (26 August 1920 – 14 March 2002)[1] was a Bosnian-Austrian historian, culturologist and scholar. Most of his life was spent abroad. He was employed at various archival and historicist positions, especially in German-speaking countries. Until 1986 he performed a number of significant scientific and archival functions such as a researcher of the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Goethe University Frankfurt, a member of the Association of Austrian writers, and a corresponding member of the Jordanian Islamic Academy of science. He died in Vienna in 2002.

Biography

Balić was born 26 August 1920 (although a few sources give 20 August 1920) in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to a Muslim Bosniak family. In 1995, Balić received the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: BALIC, Prof. dr. Smail. Bošnjaci. 20 March 2002. 7 February 2014.
  2. Web site: Reply to a parliamentary question. German. 977. 3 March 2013.
  3. Web site: Bošnjastvo se usijeca u svijest ljudi. Most. 7 February 2014.