__NOTOC__ Zdravka Matišić (b. 16 June 1944, Travnik) is a Croatian

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and Professor at the Department of

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and

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at the Faculty of

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. She is known for her work in both

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and modern Indian literature, her translations from Sanskrit, including a 1980 translation of '' Pañcatantra'', and her linguistic study of the

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. In 1996, she authored ''Elements of Hindi Grammar'', the only manual for Hindi in Croatian. She is also active in historical research, including on the contributions of Croatian missionaries in India, and authored the 2007 work ''Joy, Fear, Dedication: Contributions to the biography of Ivan Filip Vesdin Paulin and Sancto Bartholomaeo'' ( hr, Radost, strah, predanost: Prilozi za biografiju Ivana Filipa Vesdina Paulina a Sancto Bartholomaeo). She co-authored ''India and Tibet by Nikola Ratkay'' (2002) ( hr, Indije i Tibet Nikole Ratkaja) with .

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