CROWN COUNCIL MEMBER PROF. DR. SLOBODAN VITANOVIC PASSED AWAY

Belgrade 10 February 2007 - His Royal Highness Crown Prince Alexander II received with much sadness news about death of Crown Council member Professor Dr. Slobodan Vitanovic, Prof. Emeritus of the Belgrade University, who died this morning in Belgrade.

"Serbia has lost one of its finest experts of French language, culture and literature, who left behind many books and studies in the field of the national and French baroque and classicistic art and literature. The Crown has lost a good and loyal friend and an outstanding expert. It is hard to describe in words the sorrow after Professor Dr. Vitanovic passed away", emphasized HRH Crown Prince Alexander II in his letter of condolences to the family of the Crown Council Member.

HRH Crown Prince Alexander II decided to create posthumously Prof Dr. Vitanovic Grand Cross of the Order of White Eagle.

Professor Vitanovic was born in 1928 in Belgrade. He was a member of the Executive Council and Vice-President of the Belgrade Centre of the European Society of Culture, Vice-President and President of the Alliance Yugoslavia-France. He was visiting Professor of French Literature at the Universities of Bordeaux (1972-74), Aix-Marseilles (1981), Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle) (1989) and Paris XII (1990/1)