Maja Bošković-Stulli (9 November 1922 – 14 August 2012) was a Croatian
slavicist and
folklorist, literary historian, writer, publisher and an academic, noted for her extensive research of Croatian oral literature.
Early life
Bošković-Stulli was born in
Osijek to a
Jew
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ish family of Dragutin and Ivanka Bošković. She joined the
Young Communist League of Yugoslavia – SKOJ (from Serbo-Croatian: ''Savez komunističke omladine Jugoslavije'') during
Gymnasium education. In 1943, after the
capitulation of Italy and liberation of the
Rab concentration camp, she joined the
Partisans. Many members of her family perished during the
Holocaust, including her parents and sister
Magda.
Education and later years
Bošković-Stulli finished elementary and secondary school in
Zagreb
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. She graduated from the
Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb and received her PhD in 1961. She took part in many national and international conferences and symposiums, including the Inter-University Centre in
Dubrovnik
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. For many years she was chief editor, and afterwards a regular member, of the editorial board for the journal ''Narodna umjetnost''. She worked at the
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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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 from 1952 until her retirement in 1979 she worked at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb. From 1963-73 she was the Director of the Institute.
Bošković-Stulli wrote around twenty books and a large number of papers in national and international academic journals. She has received a number of awards for her research work, the annual award in 1975 and the Croatian lifework award in 1990, the
Herder Prize in Vienna 1991, and
Pitrè - Salomone Marino prize in
Palermo
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1992. She was a regular member at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
[
In 2005 Bošković-Stulli was named among 35 Croatia's most important women in history. Bošković-Stulli died on 14 August 2012 in Zagreb and was buried at the Mirogoj Cemetery.][Gradska groblja Zagreb: Maja Bošković-Stulli, Mirogoj Ž-119-II-48.]
Works
* ''Istarske narodne priče'', Zagreb 1959
* ''Narodne pripovijetke ("Pet stoljeća hrvatske književnosti")'', Zagreb 1963
* ''Narodne epske pjesme, knj. 2 ("Pet stoljeća hrvatske književnosti")'', Zagreb 1964
* ''Narodna predaja o vladarevoj tajni'', Zagreb 1967
* ''Usmena književnost ("Povijest hrvatske književnosti" 1, pp. 7–353)'', Zagreb 1978
* ''Usmena književnost nekad i danas'', Beograd 1983
* ''Usmeno pjesništvo u obzorju književnosti'', Zagreb 1984;
* ''Zakopano zlato. Hrvatske usmene pripovijetke, predaje i legende iz Istre'', Pula – Rijeka 1986
* ''U kralja od Norina. Priče, pjesme, zagonetke i poslovice s Neretve'', Metković – Opuzen 1987
* ''Pjesme, priče, fantastika'', Zagreb 1991;
* ''Žito posred mora. Usmene priče iz Dalmacije'', Split 1993
* ''Priče i pričanje: stoljeća usmene hrvatske proze'', Zagreb 1997
* ''Usmene pripovijetke i predaje ("Stoljeća hrvatske književnosti")'', Zagreb 1997
* ''O usmenoj tradiciji i o životu'', Zagreb 1999
References
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External links
Bošković-Stulli's biography
at the Matica hrvatska's website
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1922 births
2012 deaths
People from Osijek
Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery
Croatian communists
Croatian Jews
20th-century Croatian historians
Jewish historians
Jewish socialists
Jewish writers
Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb alumni
Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Rab concentration camp survivors
Yugoslav Partisans members
Yugoslav Jews
Yugoslav women writers
Yugoslav academics
Yugoslav historians
20th-century Croatian women writers
Herder Prize recipients
Women in the Yugoslav Partisans
Croatian women historians
Jews in the Yugoslav Partisans