Josif Marinkovic (Serbian: Јосиф Маринковић; 11 October 1851 – 13 May 1931) was one of the most important Serbian composers of the nineteenth century.^{[citation needed]}

Josif Marinković was born in the village of Vranjevo in today's municipality of Novi Bečej (Central Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia) on the 11th of October 1851. He was educated in Petrovaradin, Vrbas and Novi Sad at a time when music was being nurtured throughout the Habsburg Monarchy. He received elementary musical education from professor Dragutin Blazek at the Serbian Teacher-Training School in Sombor. Marinković studied music with Czech composer František Zdeněk Skuherský at the Organ School in Prague from 1873 to 1881, and also stayed in Vienna for a short time (1886 - 1887) where he attended lectures by Eduard Hanslick at the University of Vienna. He came to Belgrade in 1881 and stayed there for the rest of his life. Marinković worked as a choir master and conductor (First Belgrade choral society, the Obilic Academic Singing Society, the Serbian-Jewish Choral Society, the Workers' Choir, etc.). Throughout the years, he composed many musical pieces. He also taught at the Theological Seminary in Karlovci, at the Serbian Teacher-Training School, and the Second male Gymnasium. He was elected as associate member of the Serbian Royal Academy in 1907.

Noel Robert Malcolm FBA FRSL (born 26 December 1956) is a modern English historian, writer, and columnist.

Malcolm was educated at Eton College (where he was a King's Scholar), read history at Peterhouse, Cambridge (graduating with a Starred First), wrote his doctorate dissertation at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was for a time Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

He is the former foreign editor of The Spectator, and columnist for the Daily Telegraph. He gave up journalism in 1995 to become a full time writer, becoming in 2002 a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. He serves on the advisory board of the conservative magazine Standpoint. He is also the general editor for the Clarendon edition of the complete works of Thomas Hobbes, and the editor of The Correspondence.

He now chairs the Board of Trustees at the Bosnian Institute, an organization in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Noel Malcolm is the author of the critically acclaimed Bosnia: A Short History (1994), Origins of English Nonsense (1997), Kosovo: A Short History (1998), Aspects of Hobbes (2002), and (with Jacqueline Stedall) John Pell (1611-1685) and His Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish: The Mental World of an Early Modern Mathematician (2005). He is the editor of The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes (1994). He has also written George Enescu: His Life and Music (1990) (Toccata Press). He additionally wrote a pamphlet in 1991 titled Sense on Sovereignty, a discussion of the arguments about Britain's membership of the European Union published by the Centre for Policy Studies.