Adam Patacic
Adam Patacic, bishop of Petrovaradin and Calocz archbishop (in Hungary) wrote Latin-Croatian and German dictionary in 1772-1779: “Dictionarium latino-illyricum et germanicum” (illyricum=Croatian, in the kajkavian dialect).
Marijan Lanosovic
Rev. Marijan Lanosovic published his “Neue Einleitung zur slavonischen Sprache”, with the German-Croatian dictionary. The first two editions appeared in Osijek in 1778 and 1789, and the third in Budim (today’s Budapest) in 1795.
Josip Voltic
Josip Voltic (Voltiggi, 1750-1825), an Istrian writer and lexicographer, published the Illyrian (Croatian)-Italian-German dictionary in Vienna in 1803.
Joakim Stulli
A three language encyclopaedic lexicon (Latin, Croatian, Italian) of Joakim Stulli (1730-1817), Franciscan from Dubrovnik, written in three parts on 4721 pages, was an important source of traditional Croatian words, especially in medicine. It was finished in 1810, after more than a half of century of systematic work. Its second, Croatian part, contains about 80,000 lexical units. The dictionary describes among others the meaning of Illiric: Illiric = Croatian.
Sime Starcevic
The Illyrian (Croatian)-French dictionary, prepared by Sime Starcevic (from Udbina in Lika), has been published by the French rulers in Trieste in 1812.
Nicolo Tommaseo
Nicolo Tommaseo was an important writer, lexicographer and politician, born in Sibenik, of Italian nationality (1801-1874). In 1830 he published “Nuova dizionario di sinonimi della lingua italiana”, and his voluminous “Dizionario della lingua italiana” in 1865-1879. He was also translating from Latin and Greek into Italian. In 1841-42 he published his “Canti popolari toscani, corsi, illirici, greci”. In accordance with his Dalmatian autonomistic views, he believed in the separate “Dalmatian nationality”, and was against the unification of Italy, and against…
Bohoslav Sulek
Bohoslav Sulek (1816-1895), Slovak by birth, one of the most important Croatian linguists and lexicographers, made an enormous contribution to the enrichment of the Croatian literary language. He invented several hundred new terms that can be seen in his extensive dictionaries: German – Croatian (1860), Croatian – German – Italian Dictionary of Scientific Terminology (1874/75) and other. Many of them are now everyday Croatian words. Some of them also entered other South Slavic languages, including Serbian.
Dragutin Antun Parcic
Dragutin Antun Parcic (1832-1902) was a Glagolitic priest, linguist, philologist, and lexicographer born in the lovely town of Vrbnik on the island of Krk, important site of Croatian Glagolism. He wrote extensive Croatian – Italian and Italian – Croatian dictionaries (“Rjecnik ilirsko – talijanski,” Zadar, 1858, its last edition was printed under the title “Rjecnik hrvatsko – talijanski,” 1901; “Vocabolario Italiano – Slavo,” Zadar 1858-68). His 1901 dictionary contains 90,000 words on 1200 pages. He also published a grammar of…
Ivan Dezman
Ivan Dezman (1841-1873) physician, a medical writer and lexicographer, published the first Croatian medicinal dictionary (Rjecnik lijecnickog nazivlja; Croatian – German, German – Croatian) in 1868 in Zagreb. The reader may be surprised to see such a quantity of old dictionaries of the Croatian language (various grammars are even more numerous). See a remark on the “Declaration about the Name and Position of the Croatian Literary Language“, written by outstanding intellectuals and most important cultural institutions in Zagreb in 1967….
Safvet-beg Basagic
Safvet-beg Basagic (1870-1934) was outstanding Muslim-Croatian poet, orientalist, historian and lexicographer. He studied oriental languages and history in Vienna, where he defended his thesis in 1910. His most important work is “Znameniti Hrvati Bosnjaci i Hercegovci (The famous Croatian Bosniaks and Herzegovinians), published by Matica hrvatska (Matrix Croatica) in Zagreb in 1931. In this lexicon he presented nearly 700 biographies. He occupied the position of curator of the Zemaljski muzej in Sarajevo (1919-1927), and was also vice-president of the Sabor…