Stjepan Musulin
Stjepan Musulin was a Croatian linguist, comparative Slavicist, philologist, lexicographer and translator.Life
Musulin translated from the Polish and Czech languages. He is recognized as one of the greatest contributors to the development of Czech studies in Croatia.
He studied at Kraków, Prague and Zagreb.
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.
His daughter was the famous pianist Branka Musulin, who had studied with Svetislav Stančić in Zagreb and Alfred Cortot in Paris.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
- Gramatika hrvatskosrpskoga jezika za IV. razred srednjih škola, 1928
As a translator, he's known by his translations of works of Polish authors and Czech authors.Trivia
While he worked in gymnasium, he was the classmaster to famous Croatian poet Dobriša Cesarić.
