Jevto Dedijer

Jevto Dedijer was a Serb writer and geographer from the Maleševci clan who was influential in the formation of the Serb Academy. He was born to a peasant family in Čepelica (village), Bileća (municipality), Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was then a part of Austria-Hungary. He then attended the Mostar Gymnasium and studied at the Belgrade Higher School and at the University of Vienna, earning his doctorate at the latter institution in 1907.