Miloš Okuka


Miloš Okuka is a Serbian linguist, Slavist, dialectologist and literature historian.
After teaching as a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo, from 1992 till 2009 he served as a lecturer at the University of Munich.
In 2017, Miloš Okuka has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.

Published works

He published several hundred papers, and the following books:
  • Sava Mrkalj als Reformator der serbischen Kyrilliza
  • Govor Rame
  • Jezik i politika
  • Priče o oblicima riječi
  • U Vukovo doba
  • Ogledi o našem književnom djelu A Bibliography of Recent Literature on Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovene languages
  • Književni jezik u Bosni i Hercegovini od Vuka Karadžića do kraja austrougarske vladavine
  • Eine Sprache - viele Erben'
  • Bosna i Hercegovina prije 100 godina u riječi i slici - Bosnien-Hercegowina vor 100 Jahren in Wort und Bild - Bosnia and Hercegovina from 100 years ago
  • Deutsch-serbische Kulturbeziehungen im Spiegel des Volksliedes
  • Srpski na križnom putu
  • Srpski dijalekti,
Together with Josip Baotić, Miloš Kovačević and Čedomir Rebić, he authored four Serbo-Croatian textbooks for gymnasiums and high-schools in Bosnia and Hercegovina. For a number of years he served as the editor-in-chief of the journal Književni jezik. He edited and published several proceedings, lexicons and anthologies:
  • Das zerrissene Herz. Reisen durch Bosnien- Herzegowina 1530-1993.
  • Traumreisen und Grenzermessungen: Reisende aus fünf Jahrhunderten über Slowenien
  • Dobra zemljo šapni kroz zgnječene vlati : srpska književnost Bosne i Hercegovine od Ljubavića do danas
  • Terra Bosna
  • Lexikon der Sprachen das europäischen Ostens
  • Hrvatska književnost Bosne i Hercegovine od XV. stoljeća do danas
  • Germano-Slavische Beiträge
  • Hrvatska književnost Bosne i Hercegovine koncem XIX. i prve polovice XX. stoljeća. Kvarner
  • Pojanja i kazivanja u skrbna i besudna vremena. Književnojezička baština bosanskih i hercegovačkih Srba pod turskom vlašću
  • ''Mostar''