User:Thomas J. Butler

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Born in Detroit MI. Attended Harvard College and Harvard University, as well as the University of Belgrade as an exchange student (1951-52). PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard, 1963, did my dissertation on the Serbian literary language reformer, Vuk Karadzic. Fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and American Philosophical Society (study of the Montenegrin poet, Njegos). Taught Slavic linguistics as well as Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, and Russian at Univ. of Wisconsin (Madison) as well as Harvard University. Publications: Monumenta Serbo-Croatica: A Bilingual Anthology of Serbian and Croatian texts from the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Century. Also, Monumenta Bulgarica: a Bilingual Anthology of Bulgarian Texts from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Centuries. Both published by Michigan Slavic Studies, Ann Arbor, MI. Some articles on Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian writers in Crosscurrents. Founder of Builders For Peace, an association that takes Americans to Bosnia to do volunteer work, including teaching English and restoring cultural sites. Latest site: the ancient library in the Franciscan monastery at Fojnica in Bosnia. Before that, the restoration of the Karadjoz Mosque in Mostar.