Antun Mažuranić (

Novi Vinodolski Novi Vinodolski (, often also called Novi or ''Novi del Vinodol'' o ''Novi in Valdivino'' in Italian) is a town on the Adriatic Sea coast in Croatia, located south of Crikvenica, Selce and Bribir and north of Senj. The population of Novi is 3,9 ...

, 13 June 1805 – 18 December 1888,

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) was a

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n writer and linguist, brother of Croatian Ban

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 writer

Matija Mažuranić Matija Mažuranić (1817–April 17, 1881) was a Croatian writer best known for his travelogues. He was the brother of more renowned Ivan, the writer of the well-known epic '' Smrt Smail-age Čengića''. He was born in Novi Vinodolski and atte ...

. He was an active participant of the

Illyrian movement The Illyrian movement (; ) was a pan-South-Slavic cultural and political campaign with roots in the early modern period, and revived by a group of young Croatian intellectuals during the first half of the 19th century, around the years of 1835 t ...

and one of the founders of '' Matica ilirska''. He edited the journal ''Danica ilirska''. Among his works as a grammarian and lexicographer, the most important is the critical edition of the

Law codex of Vinodol Law code of Vinodol or Vinodol statute () is one of the oldest law texts written in the Chakavian dialect of Croatian and is among the oldest Slavic codes. Russkaya Pravda is the only older code in Slavdom. It was written in the Glagolitic alphab ...

Selected works

* (1839) * (1846–1849) *
Slovnica Hèrvatska
' (1859, ²1861, ³1866, ⁴1869) * (1860)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mazuranic, Antun Croatian philologists Linguists from Croatia 1805 births 1888 deaths People from Novi Vinodolski Scholars from the Austrian Empire