Branko Peruničić
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Branko Peruničić (Serbian: Бранко Перуничић, d. 23 June 1993) was a Serbian historian, archivist, sociologist and ethnographer. He was a Yugoslav Partisan veteran and a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences (SAN).[1] He defended his thesis on 15 September 1954.[2] Since 1954 he was the scientific counsellor of SAN.[1][3] He wrote monographs on various subjects such as cadastral books, metochion, life in South Serbia, Ottoman-era atrocities, more than 30 cities and towns of Serbia.[4] By 1964 he had released over 800 documents of the Belgrade Court during Prince Miloš Obrenović's first reign.[5] He wrote 2,000 pages on the destroyed texts of the 1941 bombing of Belgrade.[4] Peruničić died on 23 June 1993 in Belgrade,[1] having a career spanning four decades.[6] He authored 36 voluminous books, with an average 1,000–1,800 pages.[6]
