Dušan Vuksan
Dušan D. Vuksan was a Serbian pedagogue, historian, editor and prominent representative of Montenegrin historiography in Yugoslavia during the interwar period.Biography
Dušan D. Vuksan was born in Medak, a very small village in the Dinaric Alps of Lika. He studied classical philology and Slavic studies at the University of Zagreb. After graduation, Vuksan started a pedagogical career and gained first professional experience at a school in Bjelovar for a couple of years. He taught Latin, Serbo-Croatian Language and Serbian respectively. In 1910, he was appointed professor at the Gymnasium in Cetinje. Three years later, he was promoted to headmaster of the Gymnasium in Peć.
After the end of World War I in the balcans, he continued to work as headmaster of the Gymnasium in Berane. In the early 1920s, he was appointed inspector of the Department for Education of Zetska Oblast. In 1926, he reached the height of his career when he was appointed director of the National Museum of Montenegro in Cetinje. After ten years of work at museum, he retired and moved to Belgrade, where he lived until his death.
Vuksan's scientific achievement was the systematic search, analysis, collection, compilation and publication of historical documents from many archives and libraries in Montenegro, Kosovo and Serbia. He was the editor of the scientific journal Zapisi from 1927 to 1941. Many of his articles have also been published in other periodicals of this time.
