Nikola Hajdin

Serbian engineer

Nikola Hajdin made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.

The record lists Nikola Hajdin as Serbian engineer.

Nikola Hajdin was born at Vrbovsko in 1923. His recorded nationality is Serbia. He was educated at University of Belgrade Faculty of Civil Engineering.

The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.

The record gives his occupations as civil engineer.

His affiliations include University of Belgrade.

Technical work compounds - each layer makes the next one cheaper to attempt.

Working from Serbia shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.

Nikola Hajdin died in 2019 at the age of 96. The work outlived the arguments around it.

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