Gavro Manojlović

Gavro Manojlović
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Born	27 October 1856 Zadar, Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austrian Empire (now Zadar, Croatia)
Died	Zagreb, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Zagreb, Croatia)

Gavro Manojlović (27 October 1856 – 1 November 1939) was a Croatian historian, politician, and academic.

Biography

Gavro Manojlović was born in Zadar. He studied in Zagreb and Vienna, where he received his doctorate in philosophy of history and classical philology in 1896. From 1880 he worked as a high school teacher in Zagreb, Požega and Osijek. From 1902, he was a full professor of general history of the ancient world at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. He studied ancient history, Byzantine studies, philosophy of history, and wrote textbooks.

On two occasions, from 1908 to 1910 and from 1913 to 1918, he was a representative of the Croat-Serb Coalition in the Croatian Parliament.

From 1908, he was a regular member, and from 1924 to 1933 the president of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He founded the HAZU Oriental Collection.

He was the editor of the youth newspaper Pobratim and Nastavni vjesnik.

Publications

Poetry Collections

• Mladi dani Veljkovi ("Young Days of Veljkovi", 1880)

History

• O godini prijenosa sv. Anastazije u Zadar ("About the Year of Transfer of St. Anastasia in Zadar", 1901)
• Jadransko pomorje IX. stoljeća : u svjetlu istočno-rimske (bizantinske) povijesti ("Adriatic Sea IX Century: In the Light of Eastern Roman (Byzantine) History", 1902)
• Povijest staroga Orijenta ("History of the Ancient Orient", 1923)
• Sile pokretnice i pravilnosti u univerzalnoj historiji ("Driving Forces and Regularities in Universal History", 1927)

External links

• Gavro Manojlović – historian – Zagreb