Šefik Bešlagić [SEP] date of birth
Šefik Bešlagić
Šefik Bešlagić (6 April 1908 – 19 November 1990) was a cultural historian from Bosnia. From 1953 to 1967 Šefik Bešlagić was the director of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He explored the medieval necropolis of marble or "Stećci". He was a historian of material culture, especially of stones ("Stećci", "nišani", "čatrnje", "stolice").
Biography.
Bešlagić was born in the town of Gornja Tuzla in 1908
- Bešlagić, Šefik, Stećci, kataloško-topografski pregled, Sarajevo, 1971., 142.-143.
- Blagojević, M., Tepčije u srednjovekovnoj Srbiji, Bosni i Hrvatskoj, Istorijski glasnik, 1-2, Beograd, 1976., 7.-47.
- Bešlagić, Šefik, Stećci-kultura i umjetnost, Sarajevo, 1982., 49.-50,116.
- Maslić, Fatima, Starine i muzeji Travnika, Turistički savez Travnik, Zagreb, 1990.
- Vrana, Vladimir, Književna nastojanja u sredovječnoj Bosni, Povijest