Natko Nodilo (31 August 1834 – 21 May 1912) was a

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n politician, historian, journalist, university professor, and chancellor of the

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Born in

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, he studied

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until 1856, when he dropped out of college and took a job as an auxiliary teacher at the

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. He received a degree in history and geography in

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in 1861. He then turned to politics, becoming the editor of the new magazine ''Il Nazionale'', in which he published articles on the principles of national and liberal politics. He was prosecuted in court because of his articles. After abandoning his job as editor, he worked as a teacher at the high school in Zadar and as a representative of the People's Party in the

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, advocating the unification of

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with

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. In 1857 he was appointed as the first professor of general history at the

. After his term as chancellor for the 1890–91 academic year expired, he served as a vice chancellor the following academic year. He served as a dean of the faculty for two terms. He retired in 1901. From 1905 to 1908, he published a series of essays in which he elaborated his political convictions. He studied the early medieval history of the Serbs, Croats, and southeast Europe, publishing the book ''Stara vjera Srba i Hrvata''. He authored the first general history of the Middle Ages in the South Slavic area. He died in

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. A street in Zagreb was named in his honor in 1931.

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Nodilo's biography
at the University of Zagreb website {{DEFAULTSORT:Nodilo, Natko 1834 births 1912 deaths Politicians from Split, Croatia People from the Kingdom of Dalmatia People's Party (Dalmatia) politicians 19th-century Croatian historians Rectors of the University of Zagreb Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery