Milorad Ekmečić

Life

During World War II, Ekmečić lost 78 members of his family in the Prebilovci massacre. His father, uncle and other members of his family were killed by their neighbour. The surviving members of his family formed a unit of the Yugoslav Partisans in Prebilovci.

During the WWII and until 1943, he was in Capljina, and after the loss of the other parent in Prebilovci, on the territory liberated by Yugoslav Partisans. From October 1944.until July 1945. he was a Yugoslav Partisan.

He enrolled general history undergraduate study at the University of Zagreb, where he graduated in 1952. He received his Ph.D. in history from University of Zagreb in 1958 upon completion of his dissertation "The uprising in Bosnia from 1875 to 1878." He hold a position as Postdoctoral Researcher at Princeton in 1959 and then continued his academic career of a professor of history at the University of Sarajevo where he worked as a full professor from 1968 until 1992 teaching General History of the New Age and Introduction to the science of history courses. From 1992 to 1994 worked at the University of Belgrade as a full professor at the Faculty of Philosophy.

During his life Ekmečić was a member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts, the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republika Srpska.

During the 1992-1996 Bosnian War he was arrested by the Muslim Green Berets and put under the house arrest along with his family. Soon he succeeded in escaping the confinement and moved to the Republic of Srpska territory. He was also a member of the Senate of Republika Srpska. He died at a hospital in Belgrade on 29 August 2015.