Ljubo Karaman (15 June 1886 – 19 April 1971) was a

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n historian, art theorist and conservator. After graduating from the

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in his hometown of

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, Karaman enrolled at the

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where he graduated in history and geography in 1910 and later in art history. After a few years of working as a highschool professor in Split and

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, Karaman became an assistant in the Regional Conservation Office of

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in 1919 and chief conservator in 1926. In 1941 he was pressured by the Italian authorities in Axis-occupied Split to move to

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, where he would head the Zagreb Conservation Office until his retirement in 1950. The bulk of his work involved monuments in Dalmatia dating from ancient times until the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Karaman, Ljubo 20th-century Croatian historians Writers from Split, Croatia People from the Kingdom of Dalmatia 1886 births 1971 deaths Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery