Stjepan Musulin (1885 in

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– 1969) was a

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, comparative Slavicist,

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and

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Life

Musulin translated from the Polish and Czech languages. He is recognized as one of the greatest contributors to the development of

Czech studies Bohemistics, also known as Czech studies, is the field of humanities that researches, documents and disseminates Czech language and literature in both its historic and present-day forms. The common Czech name for the field is ''bohemistika''. A res ...

in Croatia. He studied at

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 159 ...

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and

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. He was the first lecturer on Czech language in the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Zagreb. In 1950, he became a corresponding, and in 1953, a full member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts from Zagreb (today Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts). His daughter was the famous pianist

Branka Musulin Branka Musulin (6 August 1917 - 1 January 1975) was a German-Croatian classical pianist and teacher. Life Musulin was born in Croatia in Zagreb. As from the age of eight, she studied with celebrated Croatian pianist Svetislav Stančić in Zagr ...

, who had studied with

Svetislav Stančić Svetislav Stančić (7 July 1895 in Zagreb – 7 January 1970 in Zagreb) was a Croatian pianist and music pedagogue. Stančić initially studied piano in Zagreb and then moved to Berlin where he studied with Karl Heinrich Barth, Conrad Ansorge, ...

in Zagreb and Alfred Cortot in Paris.

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Stjepan Musulin was the editor of several Academy's editions, such as: * ''Hrvatska književnost od Preporoda do stvaranja Jugoslavije'', 1954., 1964. * ''Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika'' He was the author of school textbooks, like: * ''Češka gramatika : i uputa u češko trgovačko dopisivanje'', 1924 (Czech grammar and intro to Czech trade correspondence) * ''Gramatika hrvatskosrpskoga jezika za IV. razred srednjih škola'', 1928 (Grammar of Croatoserbian for IV. grade of Middle schools) As a translator, he's known by his translations of works of Polish authors ( Bolesław Prus,

Stefan Żeromski Stefan Żeromski ( ; 14 October 1864 – 20 November 1925) was a Polish novelist and dramatist belonging to the Young Poland movement at the turn of the 20th century. He was called the "conscience of Polish literature". He also wrote under ...

) and Czech authors ( Thomas Masaryk).

Trivia

While he worked in gymnasium, he was the classmaster to famous Croatian poet Dobriša Cesarić.OŠ Ljudevita Gaja
Kakav je djak bio Dobriša Cesarić Osnovna škola Ljudevita Gaja

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