Haralampije Polenaković
Haralampije Polenaković or Haralampie Polenakovikj (Macedonian: Харалампие Поленаковиќ; Aromanian: Haralampie Polenacovici;[1] 17 January 1909 – 15 February 1984) was a Yugoslav and Macedonian literary historian and lexicographer.
Biography
[edit]Haralampije Polenaković was born on 17 January 1909 into a family of Aromanian settlers from present-day southern Albania in the town of Gostivar, then in the Ottoman Empire, where he had his elementary education.[2] According to the Macedonian Aromanian publicist, translator and writer Dina Cuvata, he spoke Aromanian "very well".[1] Per Macedonian Bulgarian academic Mihail Ognyanov, Polenaković's family members were Serbomans, and out of respect towards it, he retained the suffix -ić in his surname.[3]
In the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Polenaković was part of the pro-Serbian intelligentsia of Vardar Banovina.[4] Around 1934, he collaborated with the academic Petar Kolendić.[2] He graduated from the Philosophical Faculty in Skopje and then continued his studies in Zagreb, where he obtained a PhD in 1939.[5] Polenaković attempted to construct an interpretation of Slavic cultural development in 19th-century Ottoman Macedonia with the ability to ignore influence from the Bulgarian National Revival.[4] During the Bulgarian occupation of Yugoslav Macedonia in World War II, Polenaković escaped to Belgrade in Nazi-occupied Serbia, where he served as the president of the "Society of Refugees from South Serbia".[3]
After the war, Polenaković worked as a professor at the Philosophical Faculty in Skopje. He is credited as one of the founders of Macedonian literary science.[5] His fields of research included medieval literature, 19th-century literature and the ties between Macedonian, Serbian and Croatian literatures.[6] Polenaković was a member and the first vice-president of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, as well as a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[2] Together with the linguist Blaže Koneski, he edited the Macedonian edition of the Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia. Polenaković's works, collected in five volumes, were published in 1973.[5] He died in Skopje on 15 February 1984.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Cuvata, Dina (2020). Bana, faptili shi acatistili-a sãmtsãlor proto-armãnji, armãnji shi di soi armãneascã (in Aromanian). Union for Culture of the Aromanians of Macedonia. p. 201.
- ^ a b c d Blaže Ristovski, ed. (2009). Makedonska enciklopedija, volume 2 [Macedonian Encyclopedia] (in Macedonian). MANU. pp. 1173–1174.
- ^ a b Mihail Ognyanov (2002). Македония - преживяна съдба [Macedonia - experienced fate] (in Bulgarian). Gutenberg. p. 171. ISBN 9789549943351.
- ^ a b Alexander Vezenkov; Roumen Daskalov, eds. (2013). Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume Three: Shared Pasts, Disputed Legacies. Brill. p. 455. ISBN 978-90-04-29036-5.
- ^ a b c "Polenaković, Haralampije". Hrvatska enciklopedija (Croatian Encyclopedia) (in Croatian).
- ^ Радомир В. Ивановић, ed. (1996). "Историјско-књижевни прилози Харалампија Поленаковића о Доситеју Обрадовићу, Вуку Стеф. Караџићу и Петру II Петровићу Његошу". Зборник Матице српске за књижевност и језик: Volumes 44-46 (in Serbian). Матица српска. pp. 19–32.
- 1909 births
- 1984 deaths
- People from Gostivar
- Aromanians from the Ottoman Empire
- Macedonian people of Aromanian descent
- Yugoslav historians
- Aromanian historians
- Lexicographers
- 20th-century lexicographers
- Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Members of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Members of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts