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Jovan Kovačević (Serbian: Јован Ковачевић) was a Yugoslav historian and archaeologist. Kovačević was born on 5 February 1920 in Paris, into a family of Belgrade intellectuals. He finished high school in Belgrade, and then began studying history in Berlin in 1939. Due to the outbreak of World War II, he continued his studies in 1946 in Belgrade. He originally worked as an assistant at the Art Museum in Belgrade (1944-1948), and then worked at the Institute of History. He received his doctoral science degree in 1951 and began working at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade in 1954, then was elected assistant professor in the subject of Slavic archaeology. He was elected associate professor in 1960, and then in 1965 became a full professor. Meanwhile, in 1962 he founded the Department of Medieval Archaeology, which he held until his retirement in 1985. He was said to have been strict on exams. He was a member of various professional associations, both domestic and foreign. He was an editor in many scientific publications, and also participated in the compilation of the History of the Serbian People.