- Stjepan Musulin
Stjepan Musulin (
Srijemska Mitrovica ,1885 –1969 ) was aCroatia nlinguist , comparative Slavicist,philologist ,lexicographer andtranslator .Life
Musulin translated from the Polish and Czech languages. He is recognized as one of the greatest contributors to the development of
Czech studies in Croatia.He studied at
Kraków ,Prague andZagreb .He was the first lecturer on Czech language in the Philosophical Faculty at Zagreb. [Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu ( [http://www.ffzg.hr/slaven/bohemist/hrpovijest.htm] ) Katedra za češki jezik i književnost Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu - povijest.]
In 1950 he became a corresponding, and in 1953 a full, member of the
Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts fromZagreb (today Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts).Works
Stjepan Musulin was the editor of several Academy's editions, such as:
* "Hrvatska književnost od Preporoda do stvaranja Jugoslavije" , 1954., 1964.
* "Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika"He was the author of school textbooks, like:
* "Češka gramatika : i uputa u češko trgovačko dopisivanje" , 1924 (Czech grammar and intro to Czech trade correspondence)
* "Gramatika hrvatskosrpskoga jezika za IV. razred srednjih škola", 1928 (Grammar of Croatoserbian for IV. grade of Middle schools)As translator, he's known by his translations of works of Polish authors (
Bolesław Prus ,Stefan Żeromski ) and Czech authors (Thomas Masaryk ).Trivia
While he worked in gymnasium, he was the classmaster to famous Croatian poet
Dobriša Cesarić [ [http://www.ljudevitgaj.hr/kakav-je-djak-bio-dobrisa-cesaric OŠ Ljudevita Gaja] Kakav je djak bio Dobriša Cesarić Osnovna škola Ljudevita Gaja ] .ee also
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Croatian literature Notes
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