PhD
Ćazim Hadžimejlić
no.:
04431 
researcher – active in research organisation
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 6.05.01 |
Humanities |
Science of art |
History of art |
| 6.05.02 |
Humanities |
Science of art |
Fine arts |
| 6.05.00 |
Humanities |
Science of art |
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Conservation and Restoration
| Level of education |
Professional title |
Study subject |
Faculty |
Year |
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Bachelor's degree |
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1991 |
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Master's degree |
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1994 |
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Doctor's degree |
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1997 |
Doctoral dissertations and other final papers
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Prof. Dr.Hadžimejlić is Full Professor at the Department of Conservation and Restoration of the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Sarajevo. Prof.Hadžimejlić was born in 1964 in Zenica, Bosna and Herzegovina. He finished bachelor’s degree in 1991 at the Faculty of Applied Arts of the “Mimar Sinan” University in Istanbul, Turkey, and in 1994, his postgraduate studies at the Department of Calligraphy (Faculty of Fine Arts) of the Marmara University in Istanbul with a master’s thesis titled Calligrapher Jesiri-zade Mustafa Izzet-efendi, instigator of talik style, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Muhittin Serin. In 1997, he got his PhD degree on History of Art and Archeology at the Institute of Social Sciences of “Mimar Sinan” Fine Arts University, with a thesis titled “The importance of the precious books of the Gazi Hüsrev-beg library collection for Ottoman bookbinding and their preservation”, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Zeki Sönmez. At this university he specialized through two different postdoctoral works: in 1999, in the fields of Pathology, Conservation and Restauration of books under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Sadet Gazi, and in 2001 in the fields of Bookbinding styles and Book Arts, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. İslam Seçen; while through other two postdoctoral works simultaneously at “Mimar Sinan” Fine Arts University and at IRCICA (Research Centre For Islamic History, Art and Culture) in 1999 he specialized in Talik and Rika’a Calligraphy styles under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Alija Alparslana, and in Sulus and Nesih Calligraphy styles under the supervision of master calligrapher Dr. h. c. Hasan Çelebi. In the ten years that go from 1992 to 2002, Prof. Dr. Ćazim Hadžimejlić was lecturer at the Department of Book Arts, Conservation and Restauration, “Mimar Sinan” University. Since 2000 he has worked as Professor of a group of subjects on Conservation and Restauration, Book Art and Calligraphy at different departments of the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Sarajevo, and since 2004 he teaches theoretical subjects on History of Art at the Department of History of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Sarajevo, while since 2014 he also teaches and coordinates core subjects on Conservation of Artistic and Cultural Heritages at the graduate and undergraduate degree on Interdisciplinary Studies: Conservation and Restoration, in mutual collaboration with both the Academy of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics of the University of Sarajevo. Prof. Dr. Ćazim Hadžimejlić has held 50 solo exhibitions, participated in 119 collective exhibitions worldwide,
and gave talks in more than 80 international and national conferences, as well as organized many of them. As an
acknowledgment for his contribution to science, art, and the conservation and protection of the cultural heritage, he
received more than 83 public recognitions. As part of his scientific and cultural work, he is also actively involved in collecting, compiling, translating and publishing valuable written material. Up to now, he has published 85 academic papers on calligraphy, conservation and restauration, cultural heritage and Islamic world, and published as author four encyclopedic books: Umjetnost islamske kaligrafije [The art of islamic calligraphy] (ITD „Sedam“, Sarajevo, 2009),
Umjetnost islamskog knjigovestva [The art of Islamic bookbiniding] (ITD „Sedam“, Sarajevo, 2011) and Ebru –
umjetnost slikanja na vodi [Ebru – the art of painting on water] (Connectum, Sarajevo, 2014), 40 Bosanskohercegovačkih Mushafa [ 40 Bosnian and Herzegovian Mushafs] (Blicdruck, Sarajevo, 2022). Ćazim Hadžimejlić is author of many decorative works on numerous sacral and civil places, as well as he has worked on a big number of projects regarding conservation and restoration in museums, libraries, institutes and private collections. From 2008 he is member of the Association of Fine Artists of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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