Английская Википедия:Biljana Šljivić-Šimšić

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Biljana Šljivić-Šimšić (Шаблон:Lang-sr-Cyrl; 20 January 1933 – 4 October 2019) was a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois and an author of several scholastic books, including a Serbian-English dictionary.[1]

Early life and education

Biljana Šljivić was born in 1933 in Belgrade, Serbia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. She obtained a degree from the University of Belgrade. In 1962, she moved from Yugoslavia to the United States, and went on to earn a master's degreeШаблон:When and a Ph.D. from Harvard University (1966).[2]

Career

In 1967 Šljivić-Šimšić was appointed assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania.[3] She was also a research associate to Morton Benson at the University of Pennsylvania, and she is credited as a collaborator in the 1971 edition of the Serbocroatian-English dictionary that was first published in 1971[4] with the most recent edition dated 2017.[5] Šljivić arrived at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1973, and spent the rest of her career there. First an associate professor,[6] then a full professor, she was also the head of the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literature.[7][8] She was named emeritus in 2009.[2] In addition to the dictionary, Šljivić-Šimšić is known for textbooks used for learning the Serbian language.[9][10]

She was one of the founders of the North American Society for Serbian Studies, its first secretary treasurer (1978-1983)Шаблон:Citation needed and its president (1984-1986).[11][2]

Selected publications

Honors

In 2021 there was a monograph published to honor her work.[2]

References

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