Božidar Knežević
Božidar Knežević | |
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| Божидар Кнежевић | |
Sketch of Knežević (c. 1894) | |
| Born | 3 March 1862 Ub, Serbia |
| Died | 18 February 1905 (aged 42) Belgrade, Serbia |
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| Alma mater | University of Belgrade (Velika škola) |
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| Era | 19th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
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Božidar Knežević (Serbian Cyrillic: Божидар Кнежевић; 3 March 1862 – 18 February 1905) was a Serbian philosopher of history, writer, and translator. He worked as a secondary school teacher and principal in Serbia and is best known for his two-volume treatise Principi istorije (Principles of history), which presents a theory of universal evolution and historical proportion. He also translated works by Thomas Carlyle and Henry Thomas Buckle into Serbian.