Aleksandar Stipčević


Aleksandar Stipčević was a Croatian archeologist, bibliographer, librarian and historian who specialized in the study of the Illyrians.
His magnum opus is the 1974 book Iliri, which has been translated into English, Italian and Albanian.

Origin and work

He was born in the village of Arbanasi near Zadar, Croatia. He was a full professor at the University of Zagreb from 1987 until his retirement in 1997. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo.

Works

Some of them are translated to other languages.
He was the editor-in-chief of the second volume of the Croatian Biographical Lexicon.