Josip Bratulić

Josip Bratulić (born 2 February 1939) is a Croatian philologist, historian of literature and culture, and academic.^[1][2][3]

Josip Bratulić
Bratulić speaking at a 2017 book promotion event in Čakovec
Born	(1939-02-02)2 February 1939 Sveti Petar u Šumi, Province of Pola, Italy
Nationality	Croatian
Occupation	former dean
Known for	philology, literary history

He was born in Sveti Petar u Šumi. He attended a gymnasium in Pazin, graduating in Croatian studies and comparative literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. At the same university he received his master's degree and a doctorate, with a thesis on Croatian Glagolism. He worked as an assistant and research associate at the Old Church Slavonic Institute in Zagreb, and since 1977 he has been teaching a course on Old Croatian literature at the Zagreb Faculty of Philosophy. He served as a dean in the period 1991-1993, and since 2000 he has been a regular member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.^[1][2][3]

Bratulić participated in the preparation of a large number of cultural and scientific events, such as the exhibition Pisana riječ u Hrvatskoj ("The Written Word in Croatia"), and the development of the ethnopark Glagolitic Alley Roč–Hum together with Želimir Janeš. In the period 1996-2002 he served as the president of Matica hrvatska. His scientific interest is Croatian and Slavic Middle Ages, Croatian Glagolitism, Croatian pre-revival literature and the Croatian cultural peculiarities on the Istrian territory.^[1][2][3]

Works

Among many authored books, contributions, transliterations, translations, editing:

• Apokrif o prekrasnom Josipu u hrvatskoj književnosti (1972)
• Istarski razvod (1978)
• Prva hrvatskoglagoljska početnica 1527. (1983)
• Aleja glagoljaša Roč–Hum (1983, 1994)
• Žitja Konstantina i Metodija i druga vrela (1985)
• Prezimena i naselja u Istri I-III (1985-1986, with Petar Šimunović)
• Istarske književne teme (1987)
• Vinodolski zakon (1988)
• Izazov zavičaja (1990)
• Sjaj baštine (1990)
• Mrvice sa zagrebačkog stola (1994)
• Leksikon hrvatske glagoljice (1995)
• Hrvatska propovijed (1996)
• Istra: zavičaj starina i ljepota (2000)
• Pula: oduvijek (2001)
• "Ivan Milčetić o Ljudevitu Gaju i ilirskoj ideji u Hrvatskoj u prvoj polovici XIX. stoljeća" [Ivan Milčetić on Ljudevit Gaj and the Illyrian Idea in Croatia in the First Half of the 19th Century]. Zbornik o Ivanu Milčetiću, književnom povjesničaru, filologu i etnology (PDF). Znanstveni zbornici (in Serbo-Croatian). Vol. 7. Zagreb: Hrvatski studiji Sveučilišta u Zagrebu. 2002. pp. 65–76.
• Hrvatska pisana kultura I-III (2005-2008, with Stjepan Damjanović)
• Hrvatski ex libris (2007)
• Hrvatske autorske čestitke (2011)
• Slavonske književnopovijesne teme (2013)
• Pjesmarica Ane Katarine Zrinski (2014)
• Priče o lijepim stvarima ili Blagdan skromnih darova (2015)
• Hrvatske glagoljične i ćirilične isprave iz zbirke Stjepana Ivšića 1100. – 1527.: Acta Croatica (2017)
• Aleja glagoljaša: stoljeća hrvatske glagoljice (2019)
• Hrvatska glagoljica: Postanak, razvitak, značenje (2022)