Nikica Kolumbić
Nikica Kolumbić (October 6, 1930 - March 1, 2009) was Croatian historian and lexicographer.[1]
He was born in Zagreb. He graduated Croatian studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb in 1955, receiving a PhD in 1964 with a thesis On the origin and development of Croatian medieval passion poetry and drama (Postanak i razvoj hrvatske srednjovjekovne pasionske poezije i drame) at the . There he continued to work as a professor of older Croatian literature.[1]
He was the Editor-in-Chief of the first volume of the Croatian Biographical Lexicon (1983). Since 2002 he was a regular member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.[1]
His work on early Croatian literature is collected in books Hrvatska književnost od humanizma do manirizma (1980), Po običaju začinjavac (1994) and Poticaji i nadahnuća (2005). He edited and wrote commentaries on texts by Marko Marulić (1994), and provided a modern poetic rendition of Marulić's Judita. He also published a fictionalized biography of the Croatian humanist (Krvava rijeka, 1979) and a number of papers and theater critiques.[1]
He died in Zadar.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Kolumbić, Nikica", Croatian Encyclopedia (in Croatian), Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, 1999–2009
- Croatian historians
- Croatian lexicographers
- 1930 births
- 2009 deaths
- Scientists from Zagreb
- Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 20th-century historians
- 20th-century lexicographers