Zvonimir Šeparović (14 September 1928 – 30 January 2022) was a Croatian jurist and politician.
Biography
Šeparović was a professor of Criminal Law at the
University of Zagreb and rector of the University from 1989 to 1991.
He was also known as the pioneer of
victimology and a vocal opponent of
death penalty
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that ...
.
Although he lacked any formal party or political affiliation, in 1991 he became foreign minister in the "National Government" of
Franjo Gregurić. In 1992 he became the
Permanent Representative of Croatia to the United Nations. He remained active in public life and did at one point become both a member of the
Croatian Democratic Union
The Croatian Democratic Union ( hr, Hrvatska demokratska zajednica, lit=Croatian Democratic Community, HDZ) is the major conservative, centre-right political party in Croatia. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Cr ...
(HDZ) as well as a member of the party's Central Committee.
In 2000, he entered the
presidential race as an independent candidate, opposed to the official HDZ candidate
Mate Granić
Mate Granić (born 19 September 1947) is a Croatian diplomat and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Government of Croatia from 1993 to 2000.
Biography
Granić was born in Baška Voda in Dalmatia (then PR Croatia, FPR Y ...
. He finished last and, immediately after being informed about projected results, urged his supporters to vote for
Dražen Budiša in the second round.
Personal life and death
Šeparović was married to Branka, a
Croatian Radiotelevision reporter.
He died on 30 January 2022, at the age of 93.
References
External links
Biographyat the
University of Zagreb website
1928 births
2022 deaths
People from Blato, Korčula
Croatian Democratic Union politicians
Croatian diplomats
Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb alumni
University of Ljubljana alumni
Academic staff of the University of Zagreb
Rectors of the University of Zagreb
Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Permanent Representatives of Croatia to the United Nations
Foreign ministers of Croatia
Justice ministers of Croatia
Candidates for President of Croatia
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