Fran Bradač (June 15, 1885 – May 2, 1970) was a Slovene classical philologist and translator.

Life and work

Bradač was born in Jama pri Dvoru. He studied classical philology in

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from 1905 to 1910, and then continued his education in

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, where he received his doctorate in 1920, followed by further study in

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and

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. He taught classical philology at the

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's Faculty of Arts from 1923 until 1945, when he was forced to retire by the new communist regime. Together with Josip Osana, he published the only grammar of

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in Slovene to date. He also wrote a Greek textbook, compiled a dictionary of foreign vocabulary, and authored several dictionaries of

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, and

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. He translated a number of important Classical poems and comedies into Slovene, and he also translated material from modern languages, including Czech (

Jaroslav Hašek Jaroslav Hašek (; 1883–1923) was a Czech writer, humorist, satirist, journalist, bohemian and anarchist. He is best known for his novel '' The Fate of the Good Soldier Švejk during the World War'', an unfinished collection of farcical incide ...

and

Karel Čapek Karel Čapek (; 9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer, playwright and critic. He has become best known for his science fiction, including his novel ''War with the Newts'' (1936) and play ''R.U.R.'' (''Rossum's Universal Ro ...

) and German (

Heinrich Mann Luiz Heinrich Mann (; 27 March 1871 – 11 March 1950), best known as simply Heinrich Mann, was a German author known for his Social criticism, socio-political novels. From 1930 until 1933, he was president of the fine poetry division of the ...

Erich Kästner Emil Erich Kästner (; 23 February 1899 – 29 July 1974) was a German writer, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including '' Emil and the Detectives''. He received ...

, and others).

Bibliography

* ''Slovar tujk'' (Dictionary of Foreign Vocabulary) * ''Slovensko-latinski slovar'' (Slovene-Latin Dictionary) * ''O goskici, ki se je učila peti'' (The Gosling That Learned to Sing), translation of a work by Karel Hroch * ''Izbrane pesmi rimskih lirikov Katula, Tibula in Propercija: tekst in komentar'' (Selected Poems from the Roman Lyrics of Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius: Text and Commentary)

References

External links

Grave of Fran Bradač
at Žale Cemetery {{DEFAULTSORT:Bradac, Fran 1885 births 1970 deaths Slovenian philologists Slovenian translators Academic staff of the University of Ljubljana 20th-century translators Philologists from Yugoslavia