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Academician Fanula Papazoglu was born in Bitola (present
day former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, FYROM) in 1917 where
she went to primary school and completed her secondary school
education in 1936. She studied classical philology with the history
of ancient times and archeology at the College of Philosophy,
University of Belgrade. During the period of occupation, being
a member of students organization, she participated in the national
liberation movement. From 1942 till 1943 she was imprisoned at
the Banjica concentration camp.
She graduated in 1946 from the College of Philosophy,
University of Belgrade and she defended her Ph.D. thesis titled
"Macedonian towns during Roman period" in 1955. She
worked at the Department for the History of Ancient Times, College
of Philosophy, University of Belgrade from 1947; in 1965 she became
full professor. She was elected corresponding member of the Serbian
Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA) on March 21st, 1974 and its
full member on December 15th, 1983.
Dr. Fanula Papazoglu directed the Center for Ancient
Epigraphs and Numismatics at the College of Philosophy. She collaborated
with the Center for Balkan Research of the Academy of Sciences
and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, member of the editorial staff
of its yearbook and of journal "Živa antika". She
participated in various international conferences and was invited
lecturer at universities in Yanina and Athens (Greece), Berlin
and Munich (Germany). She was a corresponding member of the German
Archaeological Institute and honorary doctor at Sorbonne, honorary
member of the Philological society "Parnas" in Athens
and member of the FYROM Academy of Sciences and Arts. She was
the author of about 130 papers dealing with the period of ancient
times. She received the Belgrade October Award and the 7th of
July Award.
She passed away in Belgrade on January 26, 2001.
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