Professor Niko Županić (1876-1961) finished his anthropology, ethnology, history and pre historic anthropology studies in Vienna, where he got his PhD in 1903. He improved anthropology in Anthropological Institute in Munich (Professor J. Ranke), Anthropological Institute by University of Zurich and Anthropology Institute in Basel (Professor J. Coleman). By the suggestion of Jovan Cvijić, with whom he met during his studies in Vienna, he came to Belgrade in 1908, where he set foundations to bio physical, historical and ethnic anthropology. He had found anthropology sections in National and Ethnography Museum in Belgrade, during his appointment in those two museums from 1908. to 1922., and started anthropology studies of Serbian and other Slavic and non Slavic people who lived in Balkans and Caucasus. Range of Zupanics anthropology studies ranged in Balkans, old Slavic and Carpathian territory and ethnic communities that lived there. Zupanics de bates about Pelages as the oldest ethnic community in south-east of Balkans and Middle East and also his anthropological studies of Illyrians, Trojans, Arians, Serbs, Croats, Bulgarian, Turks and some other ethnic communities are high valued including his synthesis 'Ethno genesis of Yugoslav people' (1920). .
