Đorđe Trifunović

Trifunoviić attended the primary school and the secondary school (Sixth Belgrade Gymnasium in Zvezdara) in his native place, then he studied at the former Department of Yugoslav literature and Serbo-Croatian language of Belgrade’s Philological Faculty with focus on medieval Serbian literature, graduated with diploma in 1957, with Magister degree in 1961, and obtained his doctorate with thesis on Serbian medieval records about Knez Lazar and the Battle of Kosovo (Srpski srednjovekovni spisi o knezu Lazaru i Kosovskom boju) in 1965. He became assistant at the Philogical Faculty of Belgrade in 1961, continued academic work at the University of Athens with focus on Byzantine hagiography from 1967 to 1968, and after his return to Belgrade, he became assistant professor in 1969, associate professor in 1976, full professor in 1981, and was dismissed by authorities of Milošević regime in 1998 because of his oppositional participation and activity during 1997 protests. He speaks Old Church Slavonic, Old Greek and Modern Greek, and he translated Demetrius Kantakouzenos and poetry of Angelos Sikelianos into Serbian.

Đorđe Trifunović (Serbian-Cyrillic: Ђорђе Трифуновић; born 13 April 1934 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian literary scholar and literary historian of the University of Belgrade.