Pavao Tijan (15 June 1908 – 2 July 1997) was a Croatian encyclopaedist who spent the latter half of his life in

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. Tijan was born in

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in 1908. He attended the

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where he finished a degree in Croatian studies and Slavic studies in 1930. He was subsequently a gymnasium professor. He edited ''Hrvatski jezik'' was also a member of the '' Croatian Encyclopedia'' project. He was a member of the

Croatian Publishing and Bibliographic Institute The Croatian Publishing and Bibliographic Institute ( hr, Hrvatski izdavalački bibliografski zavod, HIBZ) was a lexicographic institute in the Independent State of Croatia founded on August 9, 1941. Mate Ujević was its director. In 1944, Dragutin ...

and edited its publication '' Književni tjednik''. With the fall of the

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in 1945 he fled from the oncoming

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army for fear of reprisal. He and members of his family travelled through

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and settled in

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where Tijan remained until 1947. From there he travelled to

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, which remained his home for the rest of his life. In 1993, Tijan returned to

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and

for his first visit to

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in 48 years. Tijan was made an honorary citizen of Senj. He died in Madrid in 1997. In 2007, the

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had his written works brought to Zagreb from Madrid.

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* Francisco Javier Juez y Gálvez,
Croatian Emigrants in Spain on Marko Marulić
'.
U spomen profesoru Pavlu Tijanu
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tijan, Pavao 1908 births 1997 deaths People from Senj Encyclopedists Croatian writers Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb alumni Croatian expatriates in Spain

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