[1] Boris Nilević was born on June 2, 1947, in Sarajevo.

He was the director of the Institute of History and the editor of the journal Prilozi instituta za istoriju (trans.

He occasionally worked at the History Department of the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo and at the History Department of the Faculty of Philosophy in Tuzla.

[2] The subject of Nilević's scientific interest was the Bosnian late Middle Ages and the Ottoman period with a focus on ethnic and confessional changes caused by the arrival of Ottoman rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

He published several works on the Pavlović family and the Serbian Orthodox Church in Bosnia and Herzegovina.