Lujo Margetić (18 October 1920 – 17 May 2010) was 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 ...

legal historian Legal history or the history of law is the study of how law has evolved and why it has changed. Legal history is closely connected to the development of civilizations and operates in the wider context of social history. Certain jurists and histo ...

, 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 ...

and a professor emeritus of the University of Rijeka.

Life and education

Margetić was born in 1920 in

Donja Stubica Donja Stubica () is a town in Croatia, about northeast of Zagreb on the northern slope of Medvednica. It is connected by the D307 road (Croatia), state road D307 and L202 railway (Croatia), L202 railway. The total population is 5,680, with 2,200 ...

. He finished the Classical Gymnasium in

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and 1943 joined the Croatian Partisans where as a soldier participate in liberation of Primorje and Kvarner. After end of the war he graduated on the

Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb The Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb (, , PFZG) is the law school of the University of Zagreb. Founded in 1776 by Empress Maria Theresa as part of her comprehensive reforms in the system of education in the Habsburg monarchy, it is the ...

in 1945, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1946. In 1948 Margetić moved to

Rijeka Rijeka (; Fiume ( �fjuːme in Italian and in Fiuman dialect, Fiuman Venetian) is the principal seaport and the List of cities and towns in Croatia, third-largest city in Croatia. It is located in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County on Kvarner Ba ...

, where he spent 20 years - 1956 to 1976 - working for Energoprojekt, a local company. In 1975 he began teaching at the

University of Rijeka The University of Rijeka () is in the city of Rijeka, Croatia, with faculties in cities throughout the regions of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Primorje, Istria and Lika. The University of Rijeka is composed of eleven faculties, one art academy ...

, becoming a full professor in 1980. He retired from the faculty in 1989.

Works

Margetić's scientific focus was legal history of Ancient Rome, Greece, Byzantium, and also Hebrew, German, Lombard, Venetian, Serbian and Albanian law and - in particular - legal history of medieval Croatia.Nikola Seiwerth; (2010) ''Akademik Lujo Margetić (1920.-2010.)'' p. 593; Pro tempore : časopis studenata povijesti, No. 8-9

/ref> He authored more than 400 scientific works, including approximately 50 books.

Sources

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Lujo Margetić, F.C.A.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Margetic, Lujo 1920 births 2010 deaths 20th-century Croatian historians Legal historians Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Academic staff of the University of Rijeka Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb alumni Croatian medievalists Yugoslav historians