Haralampije Polenaković

Haralampije Polenaković was born on 17 January 1909 into a family of Aromanian settlers from present-day southern Albania in the town of Gostivar, then in the Ottoman Empire, where he had his elementary education.

[1] Per Macedonian Bulgarian academic Mihail Ognyanov [bg], Polenaković's family members were Serbomans, and out of respect towards it, he retained the suffix -ić in his surname.

[2] He graduated from the Philosophical Faculty in Skopje and then continued his studies in Zagreb, where he obtained a PhD in 1939.

[5] In the same year, Polenaković worked as an assistant at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje, being one of the few local staff members there, due to the authorities' requirement to appoint only nationally conscious Serbian cadres there.

[6] Polenaković attempted to construct an interpretation of the Slavic cultural development in 19th-century Ottoman Macedonia, ignoring the influence of the Bulgarian National Revival.