Antun Mažuranić

Antun Mažuranić (Novi Vinodolski, 13 June 1805 – 18 December 1888, Zagreb) was a Croatian writer and linguist, brother of Croatian Ban Ivan Mažuranić and writer Matija Mažuranić.[1]

He was an active participant of the Illyrian movement and one of the founders of Matica ilirska. He edited the journal Danica ilirska. Among his works as a grammarian and lexicographer, the most important is the critical edition of the Law codex of Vinodol.

Selected works

  • Temelji ilirskoga i latinskoga jezika za početnike (1839)
  • Ilirsko-němačko-talianski mali rěčnik, I–III (1846–1849)
  • Slovnica Hèrvatska (1859, 21861, 31866, 41869)
  • O važnosti accenta hérvatskogo za historiu Slavjanah (1860)

References

  1. ^ "Mažuranić, Antun", Proleksis Encyclopedia Online (in Croatian), Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, November 2013, retrieved December 31, 2013