Ljubomir Maraković (

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, June 17, 1887 –

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, February 22, 1959) was a

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n literary critic and historian, and one of the leaders of the Croatian Catholic movement. He was the first editor of the literary magazine ''Luč'' and for a long time the editor of the periodical ''Hrvatska prosvjeta''. He achieved the highest university education from literature in

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and later he wrote critics, essays, and works from the literature theory and history, more than thousand in 40 years of his public cultural work. He collaborated on the ''

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'' from 1941 to 1945. His engagement was forbidden from

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after 1945 due to his collaboration with the NDH. In his most important review, ''New Life'' (1910), he explains the idea of literary work as a result of synthesis of the national and social interests with the aesthetic categories. From 1949 he was a professor at the Interdiocesan Archbishop's High School in Zagreb. He was one of the most influential Croatian literary and criminal critics between the two world wars, and also one of the first Croatian film critics.

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* * Helena Peričić, "Ljubomir Maraković, zanemareni katolički kritičar, i engleska književnost" /Ljubomir Maraković, neglected Catholic critic, and English literature", Croatica, Zagreb, 30, 2000, 49–50, 109–125. * Helena Peričić, "Ljubomir Maraković", in: Helena Peričić, Posrednici engleske književnosti u hrvatskoj književnoj kritici u razdoblju od 1914. do 1940. godine /Mediators of English literature in Croatian criticism between 1914 and 1940/, Hrvatsko filološko društvo, Zagreb, 2003, 239–255. Croatian writers Croatian Roman Catholics Catholic philosophers Croatian literary historians 20th-century Croatian historians Croatian literary critics 20th-century Croatian philosophers 1959 deaths 1887 births Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery {{RC-philosopher-stub

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