Josip Bratulić (born 2 February 1939) is a

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n philologist and a historian of literature and culture. He was born in

Sveti Petar u Šumi Sveti Petar u Šumi ( en, Saint Peter in the Forest, it, San Pietro in Selve, archaic german: Sankt Peter im Walde) is a village and municipality ('' općina'') in Istria County, Croatia. Geography It is located within the centre of the Istrian ...

. He attended a gymnasium in

Pazin Pazin ( it, Pisino, german: Mitterburg) is a town in western Croatia, the administrative seat of Istria County. It is known for the medieval Pazin Castle, the former residence of the Istrian margraves. Geography The town had a population of 8,6 ...

, graduating in Croatian studies and

comparative literature Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expression across linguistic, national, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries. Comparative literature "performs a role similar to that of the study ...

at the

Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences or the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb ( Croatian: ''Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu'') is one of the faculties of the University of Zagreb. History The Faculty of Philosophy is the oldest fac ...

. At the same university he received his master's degree and a doctorate, with a thesis on Croatian Glagolism. He worked as an assistant and research associate at the

Old Church Slavonic Institute The Old Church Slavonic Institute ( hr, Staroslavenski institut) is Croatian public institute founded in 1952 by the state for the purpose of scientific research on the language, literature and paleography of the mediaeval literary heritage of the ...

in Zagreb, and since 1977 he has been teaching a course on Old Croatian literature at the Zagreb Faculty of Philosophy. He served as a dean in the period 1991-1993, and since 2000 he has been a regular member of the

Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Croatica, hr, Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, abbrev. HAZU) is the national academy of Croatia. HAZU was founded under patronage of the Croatian bishop Jo ...

. Bratulić participated in the preparation of a large number of cultural and scientific events, such as the exhibition ''Pisana riječ u Hrvatskoj'' ("The Written Word in Croatia"), and the development of the ethnopark Glagolitic Alley Roč–Hum together with Želimir Janeš. In the period 1996-2002. he served as the president of

Matica hrvatska Matica hrvatska ( la, Matrix Croatica) is the oldest independent, non-profit and non-governmental Croatian national institution. It was founded on February 2, 1842 by the Croatian Count Janko Drašković and other prominent members of the Illyri ...

. His scientific interest is Croatian and Slavic Middle Ages, Croatian Glagolitism, Croatian pre- revival literature and the Croatian cultural peculiarities on the

Istria Istria ( ; Croatian language, Croatian and Slovene language, Slovene: ; ist, Eîstria; Istro-Romanian language, Istro-Romanian, Italian language, Italian and Venetian language, Venetian: ; formerly in Latin and in Ancient Greek) is the larges ...

n territory.

Works

*''Apokrif o prekrasnom Josipu u hrvatskoj književnosti'' (1972) *''Istarski razvod'' (1978) *''Aleja glagoljaša Roč–Hum'' (1983, 1994) *''Žitja Konstantina i Metodija i druga vrela'' (1985) *''Istarske književne teme'' (1987) *''Vinodolski zakon'' (1988) *''Izazov zavičaja'' (1990) *''Sjaj baštine'' (1990) *''Mrvice sa zagrebačkog stola'' (1994) *''Leksikon hrvatske glagoljice'' (1995) *''Hrvatska propovijed'' (1996) *''Hrvatski ex libris'', (2007) *''Hrvatske autorske čestitke'', (2011)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bratulic, Josip 1939 births Living people People from Sveti Petar u Šumi Croatian philologists Croatian literary historians University of Zagreb alumni Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts