Pero Budmani

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Pero Budmani
philologist
Notable worksGrammatica della lingua serbo-croata (illyrica).

Pero Budmani (

polyglot
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Biography

Budmani was born in

Risorgimento. In 1861 he got married and moved back to Dubrovnik.[1] He became one of the prominent members of the Serb-Catholic movement in Dubrovnik.[2]

Budmani wrote a seminal book in

Illyrian in parentheses, making Budmani the first to have used the combined term Serbo-Croatian for Croatian and Serbian in a grammar book title.[4]

In 1868, he started teaching at the Dubrovnik Gymnasium. In 1870 he was first elected as a member of the

People's Party to the Diet of Dalmatia. He was also elected to the Imperial Council twice, but renounced the position in Vienna in 1873. In 1876 he did the same in the Diet of Dalmatia.[1]

In 1880, Budmani was among the esteemed intellectuals that the Municipal Council of Dubrovnik had oversee the construction of a monument dedicated to Ivan Gundulić, at the time planned for 1888.[5]

In 1883 Budmani moved to

Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (following the death of Đuro Daničić).[1][6] He left the Gundulić monument oversight committee to focus on his work for the Academy's Dictionary before the end of the decade (the grand unveiling of the Gundulić monument only took place later, in 1893).[5]

In 1888 he also became a corresponding member of the

Serbian Royal Academy, and in 1889 he became one for the Russian Academy of Sciences.[1][6][7] He remained the editor of the Dictionary until 1907.[6]

In 1907 he returned to the Castelferretti estate near Ancona, and lived there until 1913, when he returned to his native Dubrovnik. But already the following year, seriously ill and embittered for the persecution suffered at the hands of the Austrian police (who considered him a dangerous subversive), Pero Budmani fled from home, reached Ancona and died there on December 27, 1914.

Budmani spoke most of the European languages, including Old Slavonic, Greek, Latin, and several Asiatic languages.

Robert D Greenberg, Associate Professor Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, describes him as a Croat linguist.[8]

Selected works

References

  1. ^ a b c d Moguš, Milan (1989). "BUDMANI, Pero (Budman, Petar)". Croatian Biographical Lexicon (in Croatian). Retrieved 2022-11-25.
  2. ISSN 1821-3332
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  3. ISSN 1331-6745
    . Retrieved 2012-03-27.
  4. ISBN 9780299211936
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  5. ^ a b Grkeš, Ivan (2021). "Spomenik kao prijeporno mjesto. Trodnevna proslava otkrivanja Gundulićeva spomenika u Dubrovniku 1893. godine" [Monument as a Place of Controversy: A Three-Day Celebration Marking the Unveiling of Gundulić’s Monument in Dubrovnik in 1893]. Anali Zavoda za povijesne znanosti Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti u Dubrovniku (in Croatian) (59): 212. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
  6. ^ a b c "Predsjednici Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti od osnutka Akademije do danas" (PDF). Glasnik HAZU. 5 (8–9): 11. 2018.
  7. ^ Ćelić, Stojan (1987). Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, 1886-1986. Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti. p. 168.
  8. ^ Greenberg, Robert D. (2004). Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade, and Travel. Oxford. p. 113.
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