Veselin Čajkanović (; 1881 in Belgrade – 1946) was a Serbian classical scholar, philologist, philosopher, ethnologist, orientalist, religious history scholar, and Greek and Latin translator.
Biography
Čajkanović studied classical philology at Belgrade's Grandes écoles (Velika škola), and received an international scholarship, on the recommendation of professor Pavle Popović, to take post-graduate studies at Leipzig University and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (where he took his Master of Arts degree) and finished his doctorate under Karl Krumbacher. In 1908, he became a Latin lecturer at the Belgrade University School of Philosophy and published his MA dissertation, Quaestionum paroemiographicarum capita selecta, in Tübingen.
He met Ruža Živković, student of Roman languages, at the faculty in Belgrade, and they got married in 1921. They had two children, Marija, and Nikola.
Čajkanović fought in both Balkan Wars and in World War I. He retreated with the Serbian Army through Albania in face of 1915 anti-Serbian offensive of the Central Powers. He contracted diphtheria during the retreat through Albania and was transferred to a hospital in Bizerte.