| Issue Date | 08.10.2014 |
| ID | Michel: Scott: Stanley Gibbons: Yvert: UPU: Category: pP |
| Author | MA Boban. Savic, academic painter |
| Stamps in set | 2 |
| Value | 23-
Petar Stevanovic 74- Josif Pancica |
| Emmision | commemorative |
| Size (width x height) | 45mm x 30mm |
| Layout | Two sheets 10 stamp each (5x2) |
| Products | FDC x2 MS x2 |
| Paper | |
| Perforation | 14 |
| Print Technique | Offset, multicolor |
| Printed by | ZIN Belgrade |
| Quantity | 25.000 each |
| Issuing Authority | Public Enterprise of PTT Srbija |
On October 8th, 2014 Post Authority of Serbia issued a set of 2 commemorative stamps, in serie "Science", shows two grea Serbian scientists..
PETAR STEVANOVIC
(1914–1999) , professor of geology at the University of
Belgrade,
member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, president of the
Serbian Geological Society, and scientist with high international
reputation, is the last student of the prominent Serbian geologist
Jovan Žujović.
His career began at the Natural History Museum in Belgrade in 1938, as
curator and the head of Geological and paleontological as well as
Mineralogical-petrological departments. The period of World War II
(1941-1945), he spent imprisoned in the Osnabruck labor camp, Germany.
Pedagogical and scientific activities commenced at the Faculty of
Philosophy in Belgrade in 1946. He defended his PhD thesis “The Lower
Pliocene of Serbia and neighboring areas” at the Moscow Paleontological
Institute (USSR) in 1948. He lectured the following subjects:
Introduction to independent geological-paleontological investigations,
Stratigraphy of Yugoslavia, the Quaternary geology. He was the author
of the textbooks: Historical Geology II-the Paleozoic Periods,
Historical Geology-the Cenozoic Periods and the Quaternary Geology.In the field of Neogene stratigraphy of Pannonian Basen, he has introduced the two new substages (time-intervals), the Portaferrian (the Upper Pontian) and the Serbian (the Upper Pannonian) and identified forty taxa, new for science (bivalve and gastropod species and subspecies). During his long-lasting geological field research, he discovered new fossiliferous localities of different geological age in the Belgrade area, Kolubara Basin, Kostolac, Krupanj, Koceljeva, Loznica and Timočka krajina. Good knowledge of several languages (Russian, French, German) enabled him to follow successfully the achievements in geosciences and to participate in many international expert teams and committees. His first scientific article was issued in 1937, and up to 1999. he published more than 200 scientific and professional papers. He was appointed as a member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Academy of Sciences of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the honorary member of the Hungarian Geological Society and the Paleontological Society of the German Federal Republic. His successful and fruitful work has been awarded by several orders and rewards (Order of Labor with the Golden Wreath, two October Prizes of City of Belgrade, “Seventh July Prize”). Owing to the great working capacity and self-discipline, he has achieved excellent scientific outcomes and made significant contributions to: developing and enhancing the geology school and geological education in Serbia, teaching and training of generations of geologists and paleontologists promoting and popularizing the geology and geosciences; developing the museology, and conserving and preserving the geological heritage of Serbia.  Two fossilized
shells of shellfish Lymnocardium
sp. can be seen
on the top-right side of the stamps and on the FDC. These shells are
from fossil
collection of Petar Stevanovic, which is on display
at Geology
Department of the
Natural History Museum in Belgrade. This
collection includes
over 300.000 fossilized invertebrate remains, mostly of Tertiary
age,
from the territory of Balkans, Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary,
Romania, Italy and Iran. It was established in 1939 as a legacy of
Academy Member Petar Stevanovic (1914-1999), who spent first several
yeas of his long working life at the Natural History Museum. Best
represented group is of Neogene age
(up to 15 mya). Besides the
mollusks, this Collection also includes fossilized remains of other
invertebrate groups (trilobites and crinoids, several mya) as well as
microfauna, etc. The youngest specimens in geological sense are
representatives of Quaternary
mollusks (up to several tens of tya). As
P. Stevanovic spent most of his working life at Faculty of Mining and
Geology, the Collection also includes the material collected for
students’ Bachelor Theses. Most important part of the Collection
includes the holotypes of taxa new for science, as well as the rare
species. Most of the collection was used to prepare the edition Geology
of Serbia (1977) as well as other expert and scientific works,
primarily in the fields of stratigraphy and paleontology, but also
paleoecology, paleogeography etc |
JOSIF PANCICA
(Ugrine: 1814 - Belgrade: 1888)
When he decided to take up botany, Pancica never dreamed it would lead
him to Serbia, where he would become the most renowned botanist and one
of the great men of Serbian science. He fell in love with
nature as a child, and his desire to leam as much of it as possible
lead him through Gospié, Rijeka and Zagreb to Pest, where he studied
and gained his PhD at the Medical Faculty. He came to Serbia in 1846
and stayed forever. In two of his most significant works, the Flora of
the Principality of Serbia (I874) and the Supplement to the Flora of
the Principality of Serbia (1884) he listed approximately 68% of the
currently known species of Serbian flora. His most important discovery
is the omorica (Picea omorika), an endemite and relict
conifer unknown to science at the time. Although he is the most
important Serbian botanist and one of the greatest Serbian scientists,
Pancic was much more than that. As a medical doctor who spoke several
languages (Latin, German, English, French, ltalian, Spanish), he was
one of the besteducated people in Serbia at the time. He is the initiator of naturalist thought and sciences in Serbia because he was the first to undertake complex studies of nature and teach natural sciences and was the professor to the next generation of renowned Serbian naturalists. He wrote natural science textbooks, created professional Serbian language terminology for parts of plants, animal organs and geological phenomena, wrote about the need for careful husbandry over natural resources, wrote the first papers on the fauna of Serbia (printed in Serbia), founded the Jestastvenicki [natural sciences] Cabinet, its collection becoming the initial fund of the Museum of Natural History, and founded the first Botanical Garden. He was a renowned and respected public personality: the first president of the Serbian Royal Academy (today the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts), six times the rector of the Great School, the first manager of the Botanical Garden, vice-president of the National Assembly, state advisor and Member of Parliament. He was dedicated to improving education and the spread of education and culture. He fought for peace and brotherhood among the Slavic peoples and as a doctor, participated in all the liberation wars fought by the Principality of Serbia at the time. He achieved all this because throughout his life he kept to the belief that “A man with knowledge can be of use to people in many situations, yet ignorance is always harmful to all of society.” |
| FDC (back side of the FDC) | Mailed FDC |
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| Circulated cover | Mini Sheet |
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Acknowledgement: Many thanks tp Ugljesa Stefanovic from Belgrade
References: Natural History Museum in Belgrade Back side of FDC covers
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