Croatia
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linguist
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philologist
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lexicographer
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translator
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Life
Musulin translated from the
Polish
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* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles
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Czech
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* Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe
** Czech language
** Czechs, the people of the area
** Czech culture
** Czech cuisine
* One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus'
Places
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languages. He is recognized as one of the greatest contributors to the development of
Czech studies
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in Croatia.
He studied at
Kraków
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Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
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Zagreb
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He was the first lecturer on Czech language in the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Zagreb.
In 1950, he became a corresponding, and in 1953, a full member of the
Yugoslav 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 ...
from Zagreb (today Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts).
His daughter was the famous pianist Branka Musulin, who had studied with
Svetislav Stančić
Svetislav Stančić (7 July 1895 in Zagreb – 7 January 1970 in Zagreb) was a Croatian pianist and music pedagogue.
Stančić initially studied piano in Zagreb and then moved to Berlin where he studied with Karl Heinrich Barth, Conrad Ansorge, ...
Stjepan Musulin was the editor of several Academy's editions, such as:
* ''Hrvatska književnost od Preporoda do stvaranja Jugoslavije'', 1954., 1964.
* ''Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika''
He was the author of school textbooks, like:
* ''Češka gramatika : i uputa u češko trgovačko dopisivanje'', 1924 (Czech grammar and intro to Czech trade correspondence)
* ''Gramatika hrvatskosrpskoga jezika za IV. razred srednjih škola'', 1928 (Grammar of Croatoserbian for IV. grade of Middle schools)
As a translator, he's known by his translations of works of Polish authors (
Bolesław Prus
Aleksander Głowacki (20 August 1847 – 19 May 1912), better known by his pen name Bolesław Prus (), was a Polish novelist, a leading figure in the history of Polish literature and philosophy, as well as a distinctive voice in world li ...
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Stefan Żeromski
Stefan Żeromski ( ; 14 October 1864 – 20 November 1925) was a Polish novelist and dramatist belonging to the Young Poland movement at the turn of the 20th century. He was called the "conscience of Polish literature".
He also wrote under ...
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Thomas Masaryk
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Trivia
While he worked in gymnasium, he was the classmaster to famous Croatian poet
Dobriša Cesarić
Dobriša Cesarić (; 10 January 1902 – 18 December 1980) was a Croatian poet and translator born in Požega. Cesarić is considered one of the greatest Croatian poets of the 20th century.OŠ Ljudevita Gaja Kakav je djak bio Dobriša Cesarić Osnovna škola Ljudevita Gaja
See also
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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 ...