Pavao Skalic, photo from Zagreb

Pavao Skalic, a humanist-polyhistorian (Paulus Scalichius, born in Zagreb, 1534-1575), was the first to have used the notion of ENCYCLOPAEDIA

in its modern meaning, in his book Encyclopediae seu orbis disciplinarum… (Basel, 1559).

He also wrote a musical tractate “Dialogus en Lyra” (Köln, 1570). He used to write his name as Pavao Skalic de Lika, thus indicating the origin of his family.