Language Serbian Relatives Vojvoda Stamatovic Genre History | Ethnicity Serb Nationality Montenegrin Name Aleksandar Stamatovic | |
Born February 12, 1967 (age 57)
Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina) ( 1967-02-12 ) Occupation Historian, writer, politician, professor | ||
Lice nacije gost prof dr aleksandar stamatovic 07 10 2015
Aleksandar Stamatović (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Стаматовић; born February 12, 1967 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia) is a Montenegrin historian, professor and politician.
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Personal life
Stamatović was born in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, to a family from Montenegro which worked in Sarajevo at the time. In 1976, the family returned to SR Montenegro where he finished primary and secondary school, in history and archaeology. He served the Yugoslav Army in 1985–86. He graduated from the Philological Faculty (history and geography) in Nikšić, in March 1991. He received a master's degree in the Philosophical Faculty (history) in Priština, in 1994. He received a Ph.D. from the Philosophical Faculty (history) in Belgrade, in January 2000. For thirteen years he worked as a professor on history in a number of primary and secondary schools in Podgorica, Montenegro. In the 1998-2001 period he was an honorary professor on general history in the Orthodox Seminary of St. Petar of Cetinje.
He lives in Podgorica. He is a docent of history in the University of East Sarajevo. His father was a professor who worked throughout Yugoslavia, from the vicinity of Danilovgrad, and his mother an economist from the vicinity of Šavnik. He paternally descends from the Stamatović clan of the historical Katun nahiyah, and declares as ethnic Serb.
Politics
He is the leader of the Serb Party of the Fatherland (Отаџбинска српска странка), which received 0.75% votes in the 2009 assembly election, and joined the "Serbian Unity"-coalition for the Montenegrin parliamentary election, 2012.
Works
He has authored at least 14 works.