Damjanović Stjepan, F.C.A.

Full members V. Department of Philological Sciences
Damjanović Stjepan

Date of birth:

  • 11/02/1946

Place of birth:

  • Strizivojna

Addresses:

  • Trg Nikole Šubića Zrinskog 11, 10000 Zagreb

Phones:

  • Department of Philological Sciences +385 01 4895 172

Emails:

Damjanović Stjepan, F.C.A.

Full members V. Department of Philological Sciences

Academic titles:

  • professor emeritus (04/10/2018 – …)
  • doctor of Science
  • fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Institutions:

  • Professor – Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

Functions in Academy:

  • head of – Institute for Scientific Work in Varaždin (04/01/2012 – 30/09/2024)
  • president – Committe for Defining the Existence of an Act Contrary to the Status and Dignity of a Member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (03/28/2018 – …)
  • chair – Committee for the Protection of goods of national interest (03/28/2019 – 25/09/2024)
  • deputy secretary – Department of Philological Sciences (11/01/2021 – 10/31/2021)

Membership in Academy:

  • full member – Department of Philological Sciences (05/20/2004 – …)
  • associate member – Department of Philological Sciences (05/28/1998 – 05/20/2004)

Damjanović, Stjepan, Croatian philologist, linguist and Paleoslavist (Strizivojna, 2nd XI. 1946). He received his master’s degree (1977) and doctorate (1982) with a theme in Croatian medieval texts from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, where he has been employed since 1971, and since 1986 he has been a full professor in the Department of Old Slavic Language and Croatian Glagoliticism; Since 2018, Professor Emeritus. He was a proofreader and guest lecturer at universities in Bochum, Graz, Mostar and Prague.

From 1999 to 2002 he was secretary general of Matica Hrvatska, and from 2014 to 2018 president. He has been a full member of the Croatianm Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2004.

He has written many treatises and books: Tragom jezika hrvatskih glagoljaša (1984), Opširnost bez površnosti (1988), Podsjetnik na život i djelo Vatroslava Jagića (1988), Jedanaest stoljeća nezaborava (1991), Glasovi i oblici općeslavenskoga književnog jezika, Jazik otačaski (1995), Filološki razgovori (2000), Slovo iskona (2002), Slavonske teme (2006), Jezik hrvatskih glagoljaša (2008), Novi filološki prinosi (2014).

Quoting: Damjanović, Stjepan. Croatian Encyclopedia, online edition. Miroslav Krleža Lexicographic Institute, 2021.