Five centuries of the Croatian lexicographic work can endure any serious critical judgement, which ranks it to the highest achievements of European lexicography (Igor Gostl). This unusual situation is especially striking in view of the fact that the Croats represent a small European nation.

The Croats organized all the expositions of the (ex)Yugoslav art in Paris:

• in Petit Palais (1919) by Ivan Mestrovic,
• in Palais de Chaillot (1950, L’art médiéval yougoslave) by Miroslav Krleza,
• in Grand Palais (1971, Huit millénaire d’art en Yougoslavie) by Miroslav Krleza, which received 150,000 visitors; it has been considered as “l’événement de la saison” in Paris.

An exposition of the French art has been organized in Zagreb in 1940.

The voluminous Wurzback’s Biographic Lexicon of Austrian Kingdom, prepared in 60 volumes between 1856 and 1891, comprises 24,200 biographies. According to investigations of dr. Igor Gostl as many as 1050 of them refer to the Croats.