Aleksandar Loma

Aleksandar Loma
Born	Александар Лома March 2, 1955 Valjevo, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Yugoslav, Serbian
Occupation	philologist

Aleksandar Loma (Serbian: Александар Лома; born March 2, 1955 in Valjevo, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian philologist and a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts since October 30th 2003.

Aleksandar Loma emphasized that Serbian epic poetry about Kosovo events is older than the events it describes, having its origin in the pre-Christian and pre-Balkan periods of Serbian history.^[1]

Bibliography

• "Sloveni i Albanci do XII veka u svetlu toponomastike" [Slavs and Albanians till the 12th century in the light of the toponomastics], Stanovništvo slovenskog porijekla u Albaniji (in Serbian), Cetinje, pp. 279–327, 1990, OCLC 439986558
• Ogledna sveska, 1998, Department for etymology of Institute for Serbian language of SANU (coautorship)
• Ljubinko Radenković, ed. (2002), Prakosovo : slovenski i indoevropski koreni srpske epike (in Serbian), Belgrade: SANU Institute of Balkanology, ISBN 9788671790338, OCLC 54098329
• Etymological dictionary of Serbian language, 2003 (coautorship)

References

1. Loma, Aleksandar (2002), Ljubinko Radenković, ed., Prakosovo : slovenski i indoevropski koreni srpske epike (in Serbian), Belgrade: SANU Institute of Balkanology, ISBN 9788671790338, OCLC 54098329, Aleksandar Loma se uputio u to da pokaže kako su srpske junačke pesme o Kosovu starije od Kosova, odnosno događaja koje opevaju. Da im je poreklo prethrišćansko i predbalkansko, a da su i u srodstvu sa sličnim oblicima mišljenja i pevanja u civilizacijama koje su nam danas daleko, ali sa kojima smo bili blizu, ili u istom životnom i tvoračkom nukleusu, u neka vremena pre nekoliko hiljada godina.

External links

• Biography on the website of SANU
• Bibliography and short CV of Aleksandar Loma, published on SANU website