Smail Balić
Born(1920-08-26)26 August 1920
Mostar, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Died14 March 2002(2002-03-14) (aged 81)
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]

Bibliography

  • Kultura Bošnjaka (1973)[3]
  • Ruf vom Minaret (1984)
  • Das unbekannte Bosnien (1992)

References

  1. ↑ "BALIC, Prof. dr. Smail". Bošnjaci. 20 March 2002. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  2. ↑ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (PDF) (in German). p. 977. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
  3. ↑ "Bošnjastvo se usijeca u svijest ljudi". Most. Retrieved 7 February 2014.


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