We received with much regret the sad news that a member of the Croatian Heraldic and Vexillological Association – Amer Sulejmanagić – passed away on 15 June 2024. The tireless researcher of Croatian and Bosnian heraldic themes was born in Sarajevo on 2 January 1961, where he graduated in 1985 from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Sarajevo. He also completed his master’s degree in historical sciences at the Faculty of Philosophy in the city under the Trebević mount.
The subject of his scientific interests was above all the medieval past, especially domestic heraldry and numismatics, which resulted in a series of publications, among which certain monographs stand out: The Coat of Arms of Dukes Kurjaković of Krbava (Gospić, 2018) and Bosnian Coinage of the Middle and Early Modern Ages (1164–1689) (Sarajevo, 2023). In addition to authoring scientific works, he was a long-term associate of scientific and professional institutions, societies, and magazines from Croatia, Serbia, and his native Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was a contributor since the 1990s to the magazines Numismatic News and Obol, i.e. the newsletters of the Croatian Numismatic Society, and since 2019 to our journal Grb i Zastava, the bulletin of the HGZD, where he wrote about flags and coats of arms of Bosnia, Sarajevo, and Slavonia, the Korjenić-Neorić Armorial Book, and the seal of King Tvrtko.
As an expert advisor to the Sarajevo Cantonal Institute for the Protection of Cultural-Historical and Natural Heritage, he was the author of a series of projects for the protection, restoration, conservation, and reconstruction of buildings and monuments of cultural-historical significance, including, for example, the Ashkenazi Synagogue and the Vraca Memorial Park. Sulejmanagić’s study of the coins and coats of arms of Kotromanić, Hrvatinić, Kurjaković, Pavlović, and Keglević, as well as the emblems of Dalmatia and Bosnia, will remain an indispensable contribution to domestic numismatics and heraldry!
Rest in peace dear friend and may your memory be blessed.
(Mate Božić)
CIGH