Od učitelja do akademika: nastavno-naučni put prof. dr. sc. Galiba Šljive (1933.– 2022.)
Teacher to academic: the scientific and academic path of prof. dr. sc. Galib Šljivo

Summary/Abstract: The main aim of this article is to offer facts from the life of the eminent historian Galib Šljivo to the public, primarily to those who have a professional interest in history. Facts can also be a lesson, but also a guide to younger generation and a sign how noticeable results can be achieved with continuous work and great sacrifices. The basic results to which we arrived in this research are presented in two parts: 1. Biographical data and 2. A bibliography of historical papers. In the first part we provide biographical data on prof. dr. Galib šljivo, which was neither easy nor carefree. From his earliest youth he was separated from his parents and his home, and placed in an orphanage in Sarajevo. Even then – instead of wrong paths – he chose the way of learning, education, sacrifice and constant improvement – that is, the only correct and right path. He began his work in higher educational institutions in the academic year of 1972/73 as an external associate of the Pedagogical academy in Banja Luka, and since 2000 as a full-time professor at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Tuzla. He went through all the stages of the teaching profession, from elementary school teacher to full-time university professor. He was the initiator and organizer of the establishment of the Historical institute in Banja Luka and its director from its establishment in 1972 to 1992 – where he attained the highest academic title of scientific adviser. The second part of this article contains data on the published work of prof. dr. Galib Šljivo. His scientific opus contains more than 150 bibliographical units, and the highlights of these are twelve monographs totaling 4769 pages. Šljivo based his historical research on unpublished archival material that he collected during his research in the archives of Vienna, Dubrovnik, Zadar and Sarajevo, as well as on the basis of news from the contemporary press, memoirs and literature – through such means he shaped a history of Bosnia and Herzegovina from the end of the 18th century to the end of the 19th century. In some of his works (Bosnia and Herzegovina 1788-1812, title “Between two wars 17391787”), he writes about the events from the first half of the 18th century. Šljivo researched an important period in the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was not very well known or unknown until his time. He reconstructed the events day by day without superfluous phrases of facts that are not historically relevant. His results were published in his books and monographs, as well as in many newspapers and magazines, among which we can mention the following: the “Istorijski zbornik”, “Jugoslavenski istorijski časopis”, “Gračanički glasnik”, “Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta Tuzla”, “Prilozi instituta za istoriju Sarajevo”, “Stav”, etc. In this way he made the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina from the end of the 18th and 19th century accessible to those who are professionally interested in history, but also to those who aim to expand their knowledge.

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