Vladimir Mažuranić (16 October 1845 – 17 January 1928) was

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n lawyer,

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. * Theoretica ...

and academic.

Life

He was born in Karlovac, as the son of Croatian Ban and writer

Ivan Mažuranić Ivan Mažuranić (; 11 August 1814 – 4 August 1890) was a Croatian poet, linguist, lawyer and politician who is considered to be one of the most important figures in Croatia's political and cultural life in the mid-19th century. Mažuranić se ...

, and father of writer

Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (; 18 April 1874 – 21 September 1938) was a Croatian writer. Within her native land, as well as internationally, she has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children. Early life She was born on 18 April 1874 i ...

. He studied law in

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and received a degree at the

Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb The Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb ( hr, Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, la, Universitas Studiorum Zagrabiensis, Facultas Iuridica, PFZG) is the law school of the University of Zagreb. Founded in 1776 by Empress Maria Theres ...

in 1866. He worked in the civil service, in the judicial and law services in Karlovac and

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, serving as a president of the

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(1898–1912). He became 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 ...

in 1913, serving as its president in 1918–1921. He was an honorary member of the

Czech Academy of Sciences The Czech Academy of Sciences (abbr. CAS, cs, Akademie věd České republiky, abbr. AV ČR) was established in 1992 by the Czech National Council as the Czech successor of the former Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and its tradition goes back ...

Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences ( pl, Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society o ...

, and

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, Ukraine. He was also a member of

Brethren of the Croatian Dragon The Society of Brethren of the Croatian Dragon ( Croatian: Družba "Braća Hrvatskoga Zmaja"; Latin: ''Societas "Fratres Draconis Croatici"'') is a Croatian historical and cultural society founded on November 16th, 1905. History The Society wa ...

. His main work was ''Prinosi za hrvatski pravno-povjestni rječnik'' ("Contributions to the Croatian legal-historical dictionary", I–II, 1908–22), in which he collected and analyzed legal-historical Croatian lexical heritage. He died 1928 in

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Works

* ''Grof Ivan'', 1883. * ''O rječniku pravnog nazivlja hrvatskoga'', 1902.
''Prinosi za hrvatski pravno-povjestni rječnik''
1908.
''Dodatci uz prinose za hrvatski pravno-povjestni rječnik''
1923. * ''Pjesme Ivana Mažuranića'' * ''Izvori dubrovačkoga historika Jakova Lukarevića'', 1924. * ''Melek "Jaša Dubrovčanin" u Indiji god. 1480.-1528. i njegovi prethodnici u Islamu prije deset stoljeća'', 1925. * ''Pozdrav bratski sa našega Jadrana'', 1925. * ''Gebalim'', 1927. * ''Suedslaven im Dienste des Islams (vom X. bis ins XVI. Jahrhundert): ein Forschungsbericht aus Kroatisch erschienenen Studien'', 1928. * ''Civitatensis'', 1931. * ''Urbicus'', 1931.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mazuranic, Vladimir Croatian lawyers Croatian politicians 1845 births 1928 deaths Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts People from Karlovac