Academician Dževad Jahić, one of the most important Bosnian linguists, died at the age of 76.
The news of his death was announced by the director of BZK Preporod, Sanjin Kodrić.
Dževad Jahić was born on August 15, 1948 in Mostar. He finished primary and secondary school in Rogatica. He completed his studies of Serbo-Croatian language and Yugoslav literature at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade in 1973. He defended his master’s thesis entitled “Hunting Terminology and Hunting Jargon in the Speech of the Rogatic Region” at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo in 1977. ” he defended in 1981 at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. He worked at the Institute for Language and Literature in Sarajevo. He has been working at the Faculty of Philosophy since 1975. In 1983, he was elected as an assistant professor, in 1989 as an associate professor, and in 2002 as a full professor on the subjects Historical Grammar and History of the Bosnian Literary Language. From 1989 to 1993, he was a lecturer and lecturer of the Serbo-Croatian language and Yugoslav literature at the Department of Slavic Languages of the Faculty of Philology of the Moscow State University.
The areas of Jahić’s scientific interest were dialectology, language history, sociolinguistics, from which he published a large number of works in scientific journals (South Slavic Philology, Collection of Philology and Linguistics, Slavjanskoje Slavjanovedenie, Pregled, Volumes of the Institute for the Study of National Relations). He is a member of the Bosnian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
In addition to scientific work, he also engaged in literary work and published several collections of poems.
