Croatian Biographical Lexicon ( Croatian : Hrvatski biografski leksikon ) is a multi-volume biographical and bibliographical encyclopedia in Croatian , published by the Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography . It contains biographies of prominent Croats , as well as foreigners who participated in Croatian public life and have left their mark on the history of Croatia .
4-504: The project was launched in the second half of the 1970s. Seven volumes have been published so far with a total of 10,218 articles (3,524 illustrations). The Editor-in-Chief of the first volume was Nikica Kolumbić , of the second volume Aleksandar Stipčević , and since 1990 the Chief Editor has been Trpimir Macan . Many of the biographies in the Lexicon have been researched and published for
8-633: A PhD in 1964 with a thesis On the origin and development of Croatian medieval passion poetry and drama ( Postanak i razvoj hrvatske srednjovjekovne pasionske poezije i drame ) at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zadar . There he continued to work as a professor of older Croatian literature . He was the Editor-in-Chief of the first volume of the Croatian Biographical Lexicon (1983). Since 2002 he
12-547: The first time. This Croatia -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about an encyclopedia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Nikica Kolumbi%C4%87 Nikica Kolumbić (6 October 1930 - 1 March 2009) was Croatian historian and lexicographer . He was born in Zagreb . He graduated Croatian studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb in 1955, receiving
16-463: Was a regular member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts . His work on early Croatian literature is collected in books Hrvatska književnost od humanizma do manirizma (1980), Po običaju začinjavac (1994) and Poticaji i nadahnuća (2005). He edited and wrote commentaries on texts by Marko Marulić (1994), and provided a modern poetic rendition of Marulić's Judita . He also published
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