Biography

Aleksandar Loma, born 1955 in Valjevo, Serbia, since 2001. Full Professor at the Department of Classics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, teaching fields Greek, History of Religions, retired in November 2025; Correspondent Member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, leader for the project of the Etymological Dictionary of Serbian at the Serbian Language Institute of SASA.

Publication list

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Published Works

Research Fields

Indo European Comparative Linguistics, with the stress on Greek, Slavic, Indo Iranian and the ancient languages of the Balkans (Illyrian, Thracian etc.); Comparative History of Religions and Mythology; Toponymy and Historical Geography; topics: Slavic and Serbian etymology, word formation and onomastics; The origins of the Slavs and their proto home, the Slavicization of SE Europe; Slavic paganism and its survivals among the Southern Slavs; The genesis of Serbian epos: its Common Slavic and Indo-European Roots; The Scythians: their language and religion, Scythian loan-words in Eurasian languages; Early linguistic and spiritual contacts between the Greeks and the Indo-Iranians; Indo European heritage in Greek religion.

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