Nationality Montenegrin | Occupation historian | |
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Born November 15, 1930 (age 86) ( 1930-11-15 ) Rovca near Berane | ||
Miomir Dašić (born November 15, 1930 in Berane, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is a Montenegrin historian and a regular member of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts.
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Early life and education
Miomir Dašić was born to a wealthy peasant family (first of eight children) in a small village of Rovca, near Berane. He started and elementary school in 1937, in Rovca,and after finishing it he continued his studies at Berane's gymnasium in 1941 (just days before Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia). Because of the war gymnasium and all other educational institutions were de facto out of work during the period between 1941 and 1945, therefore Dašić was able to continue his studies at the end of the war. He was awarded baccalaureate in June 1949, after finishing gymnasium education. In 1954 he graduated from Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, with a bachelor's degree in history. That same year he started working as a professor in Berane's gymnasium, until 1960. After 6 years of working as a professor he applied for post-graduate studies, also on Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. He obtained his master's degree in history in 1961. Later he received a doctorate degree from Faculty of Philosophy, with a thesis "Montenegro and liberation movement in Gornje Polimlje from the start of 19th century until the Congress of Berlin".
Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts awarded Dašić with a high scientific recognition in 1991 and he became a regular member of the academy in 1997. Miomir Dašić had numerous study visits at universities across Europe: in Paris (1958, 1961, 1973, 1974, 1979), Utrecht (1982), Krakow (1978, 1981), among others.
Personal life
He lives in Podgorica and has three children.