Josip Bratulić (born 2 February 1939) is a

Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...

n philologist, historian of literature and culture, and academic. He was born in

Sveti Petar u Šumi Sveti Petar u Šumi (Italian: San Pietro in Selve; archaic ) is the only village in the eponymous municipality ('' općina'') in Istria County, Croatia. Geography It is located within the centre of the Istrian peninsula near the regional capital P ...

. He attended a gymnasium in

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, graduating in

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and

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at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. At the same university he received his master's degree and a doctorate, with a thesis on Croatian

Glagolism The Glagolitic script ( , , ''glagolitsa'') is the oldest known Slavic alphabet. It is generally agreed that it was created in the 9th century for the purpose of translating liturgical texts into Old Church Slavonic by Saint Cyril, a monk fro ...

. He worked as an assistant and research associate at the

Old Church Slavonic Institute The Old Church Slavonic Institute () is a Croatian public institute founded in 1952 by the state for the purpose of scientific research on the language, literature and paleography of the mediaeval literary heritage of the Croatian vernacular and the ...

in Zagreb, and since 1977 he has been teaching a course on Old Croatian literature at the Zagreb Faculty of Philosophy. He served as a dean in the period 1991-1993, and since 2000 he has been a regular member of the

Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (; , HAZU) is the national academy of Croatia. HAZU was founded under the patronage of the Croatian bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer under the name Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (, JAZU) since its ...

. Bratulić participated in the preparation of a large number of cultural and scientific events, such as the exhibition ''Pisana riječ u Hrvatskoj'' ("The Written Word in Croatia"), and the development of the ethnopark

Glagolitic Alley Glagolitic Alley () is a memorial composed of a string of eleven outdoor monuments dotting the road between the villages Roč and Hum, Croatia, Hum in Croatia. Sculptures were erected between 1977 and 1985 to honor the historical Croatian scribal ...

Roč–Hum together with

Želimir Janeš Želimir is a masculine given name. People bearing the name include: * Želimir Altarac Čičak (1947–2021), Bosnian rock promoter * Želimir Bebek (born 1945), Bosnian singer * Želimir Cerović (1948–2019), Montenegrin basketball executive a ...

. In the period 1996-2002 he served as the president of

Matica hrvatska Matica hrvatska () is the oldest independent, non-profit and non-governmental Croatian national institution. It was founded on February 2, 1842 by the Croatian Count Janko Drašković and other prominent members of the Illyrian movement during ...

. His scientific interest is Croatian and Slavic Middle Ages, Croatian Glagolitism, Croatian pre- revival literature and the Croatian cultural peculiarities on the

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n territory.

Works

Among many authored books, contributions, transliterations, translations, editing: *''Apokrif o prekrasnom Josipu u hrvatskoj književnosti'' (1972) *''Istarski razvod'' (1978) *''Prva hrvatskoglagoljska početnica 1527.'' (1983) *''Aleja glagoljaša Roč–Hum'' (1983, 1994) *''Žitja Konstantina i Metodija i druga vrela'' (1985) *''Prezimena i naselja u Istri I-III'' (1985-1986, with

Petar Šimunović Petar Šimunović (19 February 1933 – 5 August 2014) was a Croatian linguist, onomastician, dialectologist, lexicographer, and academic member of HAZU. He was considered as the most prominent Croatian Onomastics, onomastician (since the second ...

) *''Istarske književne teme'' (1987) *''Vinodolski zakon'' (1988) *''Izazov zavičaja'' (1990) *''Sjaj baštine'' (1990) *''Mrvice sa zagrebačkog stola'' (1994) *''Leksikon hrvatske glagoljice'' (1995) *''Hrvatska propovijed'' (1996) *''Istra: zavičaj starina i ljepota'' (2000) *''Pula: oduvijek'' (2001) *''Hrvatska pisana kultura I-III'' (2005-2008, with Stjepan Damjanović) *''Hrvatski ex libris'' (2007) *''Hrvatske autorske čestitke'' (2011) *''Slavonske književnopovijesne teme'' (2013) *''Pjesmarica Ane Katarine Zrinski'' (2014) *''Priče o lijepim stvarima ili Blagdan skromnih darova'' (2015) *''Hrvatske glagoljične i ćirilične isprave iz zbirke Stjepana Ivšića 1100. – 1527.: Acta Croatica'' (2017) *''Aleja glagoljaša: stoljeća hrvatske glagoljice'' (2019) *''Hrvatska glagoljica: Postanak, razvitak, značenje'' (2022)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bratulic, Josip 1939 births Living people People from Sveti Petar u Šumi Croatian philologists Croatian literary historians 21st-century Croatian historians Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb alumni Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Andrija Buvina Award winners Presidents of the Matica hrvatska