{{Short description|Bosnian-Austrian historian}} {{Infobox person | name = Smail Balić | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1920|08|26|df=y}} | birth_place = Mostar, Kingdom of Yugoslavia | death_date = {{death date and age|2002|03|14|1920|08|26|df=y}} | death_place = Vienna, Austria }}
'''Smail Balić''' (26 August 1920 – 14 March 2002)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bosnjaci.net/dobri_bosnjani.php?id=51|title=BALIC, Prof. dr. Smail|publisher=Bošnjaci|date=20 March 2002|accessdate=7 February 2014}}</ref> was a Bosnian-Austrian historian, culturologist and scholar. Most of his life was spent abroad. He was employed at various archival and historicist positions, especially in German-speaking countries. Until 1986 he performed a number of significant scientific and archival functions such as a researcher of the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Goethe University Frankfurt, a member of the Association of Austrian writers, and a corresponding member of the Jordanian Islamic Academy of science. He died in Vienna in 2002.
==Biography== Balić was born 26 August 1920 (although a few sources give 20 August 1920) in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to a Muslim Bosniak family. In 1995, Balić received the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/VHG/XXIV/AB/AB_10542/imfname_251156.pdf|title=Reply to a parliamentary question|language=German|page=977|trans-title=|accessdate=3 March 2013}}</ref>
==Bibliography== {{Inc-lit|date=October 2021}} *''Kultura Bošnjaka'' (1973)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.most.ba/03132/008.htm|title=Bošnjastvo se usijeca u svijest ljudi|publisher=Most|date=|accessdate=7 February 2014}}</ref> *''Ruf vom Minaret'' (1984) *''Das unbekannte Bosnien'' (1992)
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