Education
Stanojević finished university studies in Belgrade"s Grande école and post-graduate studies in philosophy in Vienna, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1896.
Stanojević finished university studies in Belgrade"s Grande école and post-graduate studies in philosophy in Vienna, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1896.
Stanojević belongs to the first generation of Serbian historians educated abroad, at European universities. In 1903, he became a professor of the Grande école (University of Belgrade), his alma mater. During Austro-Hungarian occupation of Serbia in World War I, Stanojević escaped to Sankt St. Petersburg, where he taught at the university as a visiting professor
From 1917, he lectured at Sorbonne and at the University of London.
After the war, in 1919, Stanojević resumed his chair as professor of National History at the University of Belgrade until 1937, the time of his death. He was a broadly cultured man of many interests, he had profound knowledge of history, knew Latin, Greek, Old Church Slavonic and major European languages.
His basic orientation was mediaeval history of Serbia and the Serbian lands, primarily the early Middle Ages and the time of the Nemanja dynasty. He was one of the founders of the Byzantine studies in Serbia.
Stanoje Stnaojević is the author of six hundred and sixteen works, and the most popular are Byzantium and the Serbs and The History of the Serbian People.
Stanojević"s interest in the relations between Serbia and the Byzantine empire, from the beginning of the 20th century, almost completely ceased in his later years, with the significant exception of his fruitful Serbian diplomatic studies, which also included the Byzantine component. He was also the editor of the first Popular Serbian-Croatian-Slovenian Encyclopaedia. Stanojević organized himself and initiated the establishment of historic societies.
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He was a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and a corresponding member of science academies in Bucharest, Prague and Munich.