Milovan Zoričić (10 August 1850 – 30 December 1912) was a

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n jurist and statistician. Zoričić studied law in

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. He was the first director of the Royal Statistical Bureau in Zagreb ( hr, Kraljevski statistički ured u Zagrebu), established in 1875, which was the precursor of the modern-day Croatian Bureau of Statistics. He was also instrumental in starting the ''Croatian Statistical Yearbook'' ( hr, Hrvatski statistički godišnjak), a major publication of the Bureau. Zoričić was a full member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts since 1893.

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