Haralampije Polenaković, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Haralampije Polenaković

Date of Birth: 30-Jan-1909

Place of Birth: Gostivar, Polog Statistical Region, North Macedonia

Date of Death: 15-Feb-1984

Profession: historian

Nationality: North Macedonia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Haralampije Polenakovic (Gostivar, 17 January 1909 – Skopje 15 February 1984), Macedonian literary historian and lexicographer. Born into a family of ethnic Serbs in the west Macedonian town of Gostivar, Polenakovic graduated from Philosophical Faculty in Skopje and then continued his studies in Zagreb where he obtained a PhD.
During the Bulgarian occupation of Macedonia in World War Two he escaped to Belgrade where he founded the "Society of Refugees from South Serbia".He worked as a professor at the Philosophical Faculty in Skopje.
He is credited as one of the founders of literary history of Macedonia.
His fields of research included medieval literature, 19th century literature as well as ties of Macedonian, Serbian and Croatian literatures.
Polenakovic became one of the first members of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Together with Blaže Koneski he edited the Macedonian edition of the Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia.
Polenakovic's collected works in five volumes were published in 1973.