''Croatian Biographical Lexicon'' ( hr, Hrvatski biografski leksikon) is a multi-volume
biographical and
bibliographical encyclopedia
An encyclopedia (American English) or encyclopædia (British English) is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge either general or special to a particular field or discipline. Encyclopedias are divided into articles ...
in
Croatian
Croatian may refer to:
* Croatia
*Croatian language
*Croatian people
*Croatians (demonym)
See also
*
*
* Croatan (disambiguation)
* Croatia (disambiguation)
* Croatoan (disambiguation)
* Hrvatski (disambiguation)
* Hrvatsko (disambiguation)
* S ...
, published by the
Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography
The Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography ( hr, Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža or LZMK) is Croatia's national lexicographical institution. Based in Zagreb, it was originally established in 1950 as the national lexicographical institu ...
. It contains biographies of prominent
Croats
The Croats (; hr, Hrvati ) are a South Slavic ethnic group who share a common Croatian ancestry, culture, history and language. They are also a recognized minority in a number of neighboring countries, namely Austria, the Czech Republic, ...
, as well as foreigners who participated in Croatian public life and have left their mark on the
history
History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...
of
Croatia
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, anthem = "Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland")
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.
The project was launched in the second half of the 1970s.
Seven volumes have been published so far with a total of 10,218 articles (3,524 illustrations). The Editor-in-Chief of the first volume was
Nikica Kolumbić
Nikica Kolumbić (6 October 1930 - 1 March 2009) was Croatian historian and lexicographer.
He was born in Zagreb. He graduated Croatian studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb in 1955, receiving a PhD in 1964 with a thesis ''On the origin ...
, of the second volume
Aleksandar Stipčević, and since 1990 the Chief Editor has been
Trpimir Macan.
Many of the biographies in the Lexicon have been researched and published for the first time.
Volumes
References
External links
''Croatian Biographical Lexicon'' Online(in Croatian)
20th-century encyclopedias
Croatian online encyclopedias
1983 non-fiction books
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