Stjepan Musulin was a Croatia

Croatia

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n linguist, comparative Slavicist

Slavistics

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, philologist, lexicographer and translator.

Life

Musulin translated from the Polish

Polish language

Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

 and Czech

Czech language

Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...

 languages. He is recognized as one of the greatest contributors to the development of Czech studies

Czech studies

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 in Croatia.

He studied at Kraków

Kraków

Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

, Prague

Prague

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 and Zagreb

Zagreb

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He was the first lecturer on Czech language in the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Zagreb.

In 1950 he became a corresponding, and in 1953 a full, member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts from Zagreb (today Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts).

Works

Stjepan Musulin was the editor of several Academy's editions, such as:

• Hrvatska književnost od Preporoda do stvaranja Jugoslavije , 1954., 1964.
• Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika

He was the author of school textbooks, like:

• Češka gramatika : i uputa u češko trgovačko dopisivanje , 1924 (Czech grammar and intro to Czech trade correspondence)
• Gramatika hrvatskosrpskoga jezika za IV. razred srednjih škola, 1928 (Grammar of Croatoserbian for IV. grade of Middle schools)

As a translator, he's known by his translations of works of Polish authors (Bolesław Prus, Stefan Żeromski

Stefan Zeromski

Stefan Żeromski was a Polish novelist and dramatist. He was called the "conscience of Polish literature". He also wrote under the pen names: Maurycy Zych, Józef Katerla and Stefan Iksmoreż.- Life :...

) and Czech authors (Thomas Masaryk).

Trivia

While he worked in gymnasium, he was the classmaster to famous Croatian poet Dobriša Cesarić

Dobriša Cesarić

Dobriša Cesarić was a Croatian poet and translator born in Požega.Despite his limited output, Cesarić is considered as one of the greatest Croatian poets of the 20th century.-External links:* * *...

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