In memoriam - Đorđe S. Kostic (1947-2022)

We are very sad to announce that our dear colleague Đorđe S. Kostic, retired principal research fellow of the  Institute for Balkan Studies of SASA, passed away yesterday in Belgrade. During his decades-long work at the Institute for Balkan Studies, he studied the culture of Balkan societies with great success, based on the testimonies of travel writers, as evidenced by his rich biography and bibliography. We will always remember his witty nature, positive attitude towards life and work, as well as the support he provided to his young colleagues at the Institute.
Đorđe S. Kostic was born in Sombor in 1947. He graduated from the Department of Yugoslav and General Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad in 1977. He received his master's degree from the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade in 1981, and in 1986 he defended his doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad. From 1980, he was employed at the Institute for Balkan Studies of SASA, until 2013, when he retired as a scientific advisor. He was a scholarship holder of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 1983, when he was in Munich, Bonn, Berlin, and Jena. From 1990 to 1992, at the invitation of the Wilhelm University of Westphalia, he stayed in Münster, where he taught Yugoslav literature and led a lectureship for the Serbo-Croatian language. During June and November 2001, he held, by invitation, block seminars on German travelogues in Southeast Europe at the Friedrich Schiller Institute of Slavic Studies at the University of Jena, and in the winter semester of 2001/2002 he stayed in Jena where he lectured at the Institute. on Serbian-German cultural ties.
He has been managing the interdisciplinary project "Danube and the Balkans: Cultural and Historical Heritage" at the Institute since 2002 for many years. He is the author of a large number of scientific papers and several monographs and collections of papers on travel sources in the study of Balkan culture: Београд у делима европских путописаца (Belgrade in the works of European travel writers), Belgrade 2002; Са бедекером по Југоисточној Европи (With a bedecker in Southeast Europe). Belgrade 2005; Европска слика балканске жене (European image of the Balkan woman). Kragujevac, 2009; Слике са Балкана Феликса Каница (Pictures from the Balkans by Felix Kanic), Belgrade 2011; Дунавом од Бездана до Београда (Danube from the Abyss to Belgrade), Belgrade 2012, monographs "Welcome to Serbia. Kingdom of Serbia in German guides for travelers (1892-1914), Belgrade, 2006; Danube Limes Felix Kanic. Belgrade, 2012 Table for tired travelers: European travel writers about nutrition in Serbia in the 19th century, Belgrade, 2019) and two books about Belgrade in Serbian and English (Fall in love with one city. European travelers in Belgrade 1814-1915, Belgrade, 2007; On the hill above the river. Belgrade in guides for putnike (1800–1945), Belgrade, 2009. He is the author of several exhibitions presented in the country and abroad (Fall in love with one city, Belgrade, 2007, 2009, 2010; With Kanica in Serbia, Belgrade, 2010–2012).