Franjo Iveković

Franjo Iveković, a painting by Oton Iveković, 1894

Franjo Iveković (September 19, 1834 in Klanjec – March 2, 1914 in Zagreb) was a Croatian linguist and religious writer, university professor and rector of the University of Zagreb.

He studied theology in Zagreb and Pest, receiving his Ph.D. in theology in Vienna. For a brief period he served as a chaplain of the St. Mark's Church, Zagreb. At the Faculty of theology in Zagreb he taught Oriental languages and Biblical exegesis. Since 1875 he served as a docent, and since 1878 as a full professor at the Faculty of Theology. He was rector of the University of Zagreb in the academic year 1879/1880, and after his mandate expired he served as a prorector. He also served as the director of the Nobility Boarding School and a canon.

On the basis of the material collected by his deceased nephew Ivan Broz, and with his own research, he published an influential two-volume dictionary of Croatian in 1901. He published his papers in various journals and periodicals (Vienac, Rad, , etc.). Stairs on the Zagreb Gornji grad were named after him in 1931.

Works[]

• Životi svetaca i svetica božjih (1873-1888, ²1892-1908)
• Biblijska povjest starozavjetne objave Božje za srednja učilišta (1879, ²1895, ³1900, ⁴1907, ⁵1913., ⁶1918, ⁷1921)
• Biblijska povijest novozavjetne objave Božje za srednja učilišta (1879, ²1898, ³1911)
• Rječnik hrvatskoga jezika. Svezak I. A - O. (1901)
• Rječnik hrvatskoga jezika. Svezak II. P - Ž. (1901)

References[]

• Iveković's biography at the University of Zagreb website