Jovan Žujović
Jovan Žujović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Жујовић) (1856, Brusnica, Gornji Milanovac - 1936) was an anthropologist, known as a founder of geology in Serbia.
Žujović was named among the first four members of the Academy of Natural Sciences of the Royal Serbian Academy of Sciences, named by King Milan I of Serbia on 5 April 1887.
He is known, among other things, for his work in anthropology. In his book, Stone Age, published in 1893, relying mostly on French scientists, he reviewed the contemporary state of knowledge in paleoanthropology.
Later, between 1927, and 1929, in the book Genesis of the Earth and Our Country, he wrote about the biological past of the Earth starting from the beginning of mankind. The work takes particular interest in the history of the Balkan peninsula.
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