successors, as he might have done, being in many respects a figure comparable to what Mircea Eliade was in Romania." The Case of Veselin Čajkanović In the eyes of the Communist regime, "Dr. Veselin Čajkanović, dean at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade during German occupation, represented the university as a member of the Ministry of Education and Faith's Advisory Board on the creation of the Serbian civil plan, whose initiator and organizer was Vladimir Velmar-Janković, assistant of the Minister of Education and Faith." The communists who took over after the war did not approve of Čajkanović's scholarship, and even to this day, most of his work is still in manuscript form. Veselin Čajkanović taught at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Belgrade throughout German occupation of Yugoslavia, and when the provisional government of the so-called Democratic Federal Yugoslavia put Communists in power, he was so engrossed with his work that he did not notice what went around him. He may not have been himself troubled about gunfire in the streets, but he began to fear for the safety of his family in such uncertain conditions. Above all a professor who was relatively uninterested in politics and causes, Čajkanović certainly realized, as did his compatriots and fellow-professors, Vladimir Velmar-Janković, Slobodan Jovanović, Dimitrije Najdanović, Miloš Mladenović, Djoko Slijepčević and many others, who left the country in time, that an environment of occupation, revolution and civil war was -- as Čajkanović put it -- "hardly the time for teaching." Yet he taught privately just the same since the University of Belgrade was forced to close down in 1941. And so, it was not long before he was dismissed by the Communists as "an undesirable war criminal" for teaching while under Nazi occupation. It came as an unbearable shock to a sensitive scholar like himself. He fell ill never to recover his health again. He died a year later, in 1946. Selected works He authored several books, while numerous studies and articles remained scattered in various publications. His texts were published mainly in Serbian, Latin, and German and include: The folklore and religion studies (1924) Vergil and his contemporaries (1930) A survey of Roman literature (1932) Florilegium latinum in usum schoiarfum (1940) On Serbian Highest Deity (1941) Čajkanović's collected works, edited by Vojislav Đurić, were published in five volumes in 1994 in Belgrade. References Marko Zivkovic, Translator, University