Nikica Kolumbić (6 October 1930 - 1 March 2009) was

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historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

and

lexicographer Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines. It is the art of compiling dictionaries. * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. * Theoreti ...

. He was born in

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. He graduated Croatian studies 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 ...

in 1955, receiving a PhD in 1964 with a thesis ''On the origin and development of Croatian medieval passion poetry and drama'' (''Postanak i razvoj hrvatske srednjovjekovne pasionske poezije i drame'') at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zadar. There he continued to work as a professor of older

Croatian literature Croatian literature refers to literary works attributed to the medieval and modern culture of the Croats, Croatia, and Croatian. Besides the modern language whose shape and orthography was standardized in the late 19th century, it also covers t ...

. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the first volume of the

Croatian Biographical Lexicon ''Croatian Biographical Lexicon'' ( hr, Hrvatski biografski leksikon) is a multi-volume biographical and bibliographical encyclopedia in Croatian, published by the Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography. It contains biographies of prominent ...

(1983). Since 2002 he was 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 ...

. His work on early Croatian literature is collected in books ''Hrvatska književnost od humanizma do manirizma'' (1980), ''Po običaju začinjavac'' (1994) and ''Poticaji i nadahnuća'' (2005). He edited and wrote commentaries on texts by

Marko Marulić Marko Marulić Splićanin (), in Latin Marcus Marulus Spalatensis (18 August 1450 – 5 January 1524), was a Croatian poet, lawyer, judge, and Renaissance humanist who coined the term "psychology". He is the national poet of Croatia. According to ...

(1994), and provided a modern poetic rendition of Marulić's ''

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''. He also published a fictionalized biography of the Croatian humanist Fran Trankvil Andreis (''Krvava rijeka'', 1979) and a number of papers and theater critiques. He died in

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