Josip Bratulić (born 2 February 1939) is a Croatian philologist and a historian of literature and culture.[1][2][3]

Josip Bratulić
Bratulić speaking at a 2017 book promotion event in Čakovec
Born(1939-02-02)2 February 1939
NationalityCroatian
Occupationformer dean
Known forphilology, literary history

He was born in Sveti Petar u Šumi. He attended a gymnasium in Pazin, graduating in Croatian studies and comparative literature 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. He worked as an assistant and research associate at the Old Church Slavonic Institute 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.[1][2][3]

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 Roč–Hum together with Želimir Janeš. In the period 1996-2002 he served as the president of Matica hrvatska. His scientific interest is Croatian and Slavic Middle Ages, Croatian Glagolitism, Croatian pre-revival literature and the Croatian cultural peculiarities on the Istrian territory.[1][2][3]

Works

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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)
  • 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

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  1. ^ a b c "Bratulić, Josip", Croatian Encyclopedia (in Croatian), Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, 1999–2009, retrieved May 3, 2014
  2. ^ a b c Bogišić, Rafo (1989), "Bratulić, Josip", Croatian Biographical Lexicon (HBL) (in Croatian), Miroslav Krleža Lexicographical Institute
  3. ^ a b c Damjanović, Stjepan (2015), "Bratulić, Josip", Enciklopedija Matice hrvatske (in Croatian), vol. 1, Matica hrvatska, pp. 307–311, ISBN 9789533410142
Cultural offices
Preceded by 0President of Matica hrvatska0
1996–2002
Succeeded by