Vladimir Mažuranić (16 October 1845 – 17 January 1928) was a

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and academic.

Life

He was born in

Karlovac Karlovac () is a city in central Croatia. In the 2021 census, its population was 49,377. Karlovac is the administrative centre of Karlovac County. The city is located southwest of Zagreb and northeast of Rijeka, and is connected to them via the ...

, as the son of Croatian Ban and writer

Ivan Mažuranić Ivan Mažuranić (; 11 August 1814 – 4 August 1890) was a Croatian poet, linguist, lawyer and politician who is considered to be one of the most important figures in Croatia's political and cultural life in the mid-19th century. Mažuranić se ...

, and father of writer

Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (; 18 April 1874 – 21 September 1938), also spelled Ivana Berlic-Mazuranic in English, was a Croatian literature, Croatian writer. She has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children. Early life She was born ...

. He studied law in

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and received a degree at the

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in 1866. He worked in the

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, in the judicial and law services in

and

Ogulin Ogulin () is a town in central Croatia, in Karlovac County. It has a population of 7,389 (2021) (it was 8,216 in 2011), and a total municipal population of 12,251 (2021). Ogulin is known for its historic stone castle, known as Kula, and the nearby ...

, serving as a president of the Tabula Banalis (1898–1912). He became a full member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1913, serving as its president in 1918–1921. He was an honorary member of the

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, and Shevchenko Scientific Society in

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, Ukraine. He was also a member of Brethren of the Croatian Dragon. His main work was ''Prinosi za hrvatski pravno-povjestni rječnik'' ("Contributions to the Croatian legal-historical dictionary", I–II, 1908–22), in which he collected and analyzed legal-historical Croatian lexical heritage. He died 1928 in

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Works

* ''Grof Ivan'', 1883. * ''O rječniku pravnog nazivlja hrvatskoga'', 1902.
''Prinosi za hrvatski pravno-povjestni rječnik''
1908.
''Dodatci uz prinose za hrvatski pravno-povjestni rječnik''
1923. * ''Pjesme Ivana Mažuranića'' * ''Izvori dubrovačkoga historika Jakova Lukarevića'', 1924. * ''Melek "Jaša Dubrovčanin" u Indiji god. 1480.-1528. i njegovi prethodnici u Islamu prije deset stoljeća'', 1925. * ''Pozdrav bratski sa našega Jadrana'', 1925. * ''Gebalim'', 1927. * ''Suedslaven im Dienste des Islams (vom X. bis ins XVI. Jahrhundert): ein Forschungsbericht aus Kroatisch erschienenen Studien'', 1928. * ''Civitatensis'', 1931. * ''Urbicus'', 1931.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mazuranic, Vladimir Croatian lawyers Croatian politicians 1845 births 1928 deaths Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts People from Karlovac