Luka Marjanović (October 18, 1844 – September 8, 1920) was

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n lawyer and

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. He was born in

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. After receiving a degree in law at the

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, he received his PhD in

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in 1872. During the period 1872–1874 he taught as a professor of

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n civil law at the Law Academy in Zagreb, and then

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at the Faculty of Law until 1903. He collected and published ''Hrvatske narodne pjesme, što se pjevaju u gornjoj hrvatskoj Krajini i u turskoj Hrvatskoj'' ("Croatian folk songs, sung in Upper Krajina and

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", 1864). At the initiative of

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he collected epic folk songs sung by Muslim (

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) singers (published as ''Hrvatske narodne pjesme'', III–IV, 1898–99). He died in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Marjanovic, Luka Croatian lawyers Croatian ethnographers 1844 births 1920 deaths