Dragan Milivojevic

[Anne Fisher]

Thank you for passing on this sad news, Emily. I'm sorry to hear it.
Professor Milivojevich, one of my first Russian teachers, was kind and
patient, with an unexpectedly sly sense of humor. He was also extremely
modest about his amazing language skills. He will indeed be missed.

Annie

Sent from my Windows Phone From: Johnson, Emily D.
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 7:09 AM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: [SEELANGS] Dragan Milivojevic
I am saddened to report that Dragan Milivojevic, Emeritus Professor of
Russian at the University of Oklahoma, passed away last Friday
following a brief illness.   Born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1929, Dragan
was the son of a prominent attorney and a professor of French and from
an early age showed an aptitude for languages.  He completed an
undergraduate degree at the University of Belgrade and then, after
defecting from Tito's Yugoslavia in 1952, went on to finish his Ph.D.
in Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin.   A polyglot who
spoke at least six languages fluently and who could converse
proficiently in more, Dragan taught briefly at Tulane University
before settling into a permanent faculty position at the University of
Oklahoma.  He played a pivotal role in the creation of the OU Russian
program and is remembered very fondly by both faculty in OU's
Department of Modern Languages, Literatures & Linguistics and by our
alumni.  He was an enthusiastic teacher and a!
 lso a passionate advocate for study abroad.   As a scholar, Dragan is
best remembered for his work on Slavic phonology and also for the
volume of essays on Tolstoy and Buddhism that he edited.  He will be
sorely missed.

A more complete obituary for Dragan is posted at:

http://normantranscript.com/obituaries/x1125105564/Dr-Dragan-Milivojevic


Dr. Emily Johnson
Associate Professor
Dept. of Modern Languages, Literatures & Linguistics
University of Oklahoma
780 Van Vleet Oval, Room 206
Norman, OK 73019
phone: (405) 325-1486
fax: (405) 325-0103
emilydjohnson at ou.edu

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