Haralampije Polenaković

Haralampije Polenaković (Gostivar, 17 January 1909 – Skopje 15 February 1984), was a Yugoslav and Macedonian literary historian and lexicographer.

Polenaković was born into ethnic Serbian family in the town of Gostivar, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire. He graduated from Philosophical Faculty in Skopje and then continued his studies in Zagreb where he obtained a PhD. During the Bulgarian occupation of Yugoslav Macedonia during WWII, he escaped to Belgrade where he founded the "Society of Refugees from South Serbia".

After the War Polenaković worked as a professor at the Philosophical Faculty in Skopje. He is credited as one of the founders of literary history of Macedonia. His fields of research included medieval literature, 19th century literature as well as ties of Macedonian, Serbian and Croatian literatures. Polenaković became one of the first members of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Together with Blaže Koneski he edited the Macedonian edition of the Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia. Polenaković's collected works in five volumes were published in 1973.