Academician Fanula Papazoglu graduated in 1946 from the College of Philosophy, University of Belgrade and she defended her Ph.D. thesis titled "Macedonian towns during Roman period" in 1955. She worked at the Department for the History of Ancient Times, College of Philosophy, University of Belgrade from 1947; in 1965 she became full professor. She was elected corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA). She collaborated with the Center for Balkan Research of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia, member of the editorial staff of its yearbook and of journal "Živa antika". She participated in various international conferences and was invited lecturer at universities in Yanina and Athens (Greece), Berlin and Munich (Germany). She was a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and honorary doctor at Sorbonne, honorary member of the Philological society "Parnas" in Athens and member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MANU).
