Šime Ljubić (24 May 1822 – 19 October 1896) was an archaeologist, theologian, and historian, best known as one of the founders of
Croatian
archaeology.
Ljubić studied
theology in
Zagreb and
history and
Slavic studies
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in
Vienna. He was the director of the
Split Archaeological Museum and collected materials from the
Archives of Venice
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Significance
The archive contains most of the historical sources that the Republic of Venice has had since the city fire of 976 (cf. Pietr ...
that were later published by the
Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts. Later he was director of the
Archaeological Museum in Zagreb
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. He founded the
Croatian Archaeological Society and its publication, ''Viestnik hrvatskoga areheologičkoga družtva''.
Ljubić wrote about ancient
numismatics, prehistoric and Roman finds,
Marco Antonio de Dominis,
Petar Hektorović, and the relations between the republics of
Ragusa and
Venice
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. He collected objects for the National Museum and published the medieval statutes of
Budva,
Skradin, and
Hvar. He participated in the
Illyrian movement in
Dalmatia
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and wrote fiction.
Works
*''Numografia Dalmata'', 1853
*
Dizionario biografico degli uomini illustri della Dalmazia', 1856
*''Studi archeologici sulla Dalmazia'', 1860
*''Pregled hrvatske poviesti'', 1864
*''Ob odnošajih dubrovačke sa mletačkom republikom tja do godine 1358'', 1868
*''Ogledalo književne poviesti jugoslavjanske na podučavanje mladeži'', 1869
*''Listine o odnošajih izmedju južnoga slavenstva i Mletačke Republike'', 1870
*''Spomenici o Šćepanu Malom'', 1870
*''Petar Hektorović'', 1874
*''Statuta Et Leges Civitatis Buduae, Civitatis Scardonae, Et Civitatis Et Insulae Lesinae'', 1882
*''Index Rerum, Personarum Et Locorum'', 1893
Gallery
File:House and mausoleum of Šime Ljubić (8144).jpg, Bust
File:Kuca mauzolej Ljubic.jpg, Ljubić's house and mausoleum in Stari Grad on Island of Hvar
File:House and mausoleum of Šime Ljubić (8148).jpg, Memorial plaque
References
Sources
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1822 births
1896 deaths
19th-century Croatian historians
Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
People from Stari Grad, Croatia
People from the Kingdom of Dalmatia
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