Lujo Margetić (18 October 1920 – 17 May 2010) was a

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legal historian Legal history or the history of law is the study of how law has evolved and why it has changed. Legal history is closely connected to the development of civilisations and operates in the wider context of social history. Certain jurists and hist ...

, member of the

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and a professor emeritus of the University of Rijeka.

Life and education

Margetić was born in 1920 in

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. He finished the Classical Gymnasium in

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and 1943 joined the

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where as a soldier participate in liberation of Primorje and Kvarner. After end of the war he graduated on the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb in 1945, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1946. In 1948 Margetić moved to

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, where he spent 20 years - 1956 to 1976 - working for Energoprojekt, a local company. In 1975 he began teaching at the

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, becoming a full professor in 1980. He retired from the faculty in 1989.

Works

Margetić's scientific focus was legal history of Ancient Rome, Greece, Byzantium, and also Hebrew, German, Lombard, Venetian, Serbian and Albanian law and - in particular - legal history of medieval Croatia.Nikola Seiwerth; (2010) ''Akademik Lujo Margetić (1920.-2010.)'' p. 593; Pro tempore : časopis studenata povijesti, No. 8-9

/ref> He authored more than 400 scientific works, including approximately 50 books.

Sources

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Lujo Margetić, F.C.A.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Margetic, Lujo 1920 births 2010 deaths 20th-century Croatian historians Legal historians Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Academic staff of the University of Rijeka Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb alumni Croatian medievalists Yugoslav historians