Branko Fučić

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Branko Fučić
Born(1920-09-08)8 September 1920
archeologist
AwardsHerder Prize (1985)

Branko Fučić (8 September 1920 – 30 January 1999) was a

paleographer.[1]

He was born in

Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts since 1975, extraordinary member since 1983, and a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 1991.[3]

He was actively engaged in

Kvarner islands. He discovered and analyzed medieval frescoes in sixty locales in Istria (Istarske freske, 1963; Vincent iz Kastva, 1992). He led archaeological excavations of the Church of St. Lucy, Jurandvor on the island of Krk, as well as the conservation effort of the complex St. Mary's in Osor. In his book Glagoljski natpisi (Glagolitic inscriptions, 1982) he collected paleographic and archaeological descriptions of all known Glagolitic inscriptions, more than 500 of them, which were created during the 11-13th century. He personally discovered more than half of them, mostly in Istria and Kvarner. He found and described the Roč Glagolitic abecedarium, Hum inscription, was the first to decode Valun tablet, Grdosel fragment, Supetar fragment, and contributed to the interpretation of Baška tablet as a left altar partition. His reconstruction of the text of the Baška tablet is the most widely accepted version today.[1]

He died in Rijeka.

References

  1. ^
    Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža
    , 1999–2009, retrieved 2 January 2014
  2. ^ "HAZU • Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti - Osobne stranice članova - Branko Fučić - Biografija". info.hazu.hr. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
  3. Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža
    , retrieved 2 January 2014