Šime Ljubić (24 May 1822 – 19 October 1896) was an archaeologist, theologian, and historian, best known as one of the founders of

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archaeology Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

. Ljubić studied

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. He was the director of the Split Archaeological Museum and collected materials from the Archives of Venice that were later published by the

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. Later he was director of the

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. He founded the Croatian Archaeological Society and its publication, ''Viestnik hrvatskoga areheologičkoga družtva''. Ljubić wrote about ancient

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, prehistoric and Roman finds,

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, and the relations between the republics of

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. He collected objects for the National Museum and published the medieval statutes of

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, and

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. He participated in the

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and wrote fiction.

Works

*''Numografia Dalmata'', 1853 *
Dizionario biografico degli uomini illustri della Dalmazia
', 1856 *''Studi archeologici sulla Dalmazia'', 1860 *''Pregled hrvatske poviesti'', 1864 *''Ob odnošajih dubrovačke sa mletačkom republikom tja do godine 1358'', 1868 *''Ogledalo književne poviesti jugoslavjanske na podučavanje mladeži'', 1869 *''Listine o odnošajih izmedju južnoga slavenstva i Mletačke Republike'', 1870 *''Spomenici o Šćepanu Malom'', 1870 *''Petar Hektorović'', 1874 *''Statuta Et Leges Civitatis Buduae, Civitatis Scardonae, Et Civitatis Et Insulae Lesinae'', 1882 *''Index Rerum, Personarum Et Locorum'', 1893

Gallery

File:House and mausoleum of Šime Ljubić (8144).jpg, Bust File:Kuca mauzolej Ljubic.jpg, Ljubić's house and mausoleum in Stari Grad on Island of Hvar File:House and mausoleum of Šime Ljubić (8148).jpg, Memorial plaque

References

Sources

* 1822 births 1896 deaths 19th-century Croatian historians Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts People from Stari Grad, Croatia People from the Kingdom of Dalmatia {{Croatia-bio-stub