Tomislav Maretic

In memoriam

Tomo Maretic is considered to be one of the greatest of Croatian linguists. Tomo Maretic was born on October 13, 1854 in Virovitica, a small Croatian town in the region of Slavonia. Here, he attended primary school, and then attended high school at Varaždin, Slavonska Požega and Zagreb. In 1875, he enrolled to study Slavic languages, and simultaneously Latin and Greek, at the Philosophical Faculty of Zagreb University. Having passed his exams in Classical Philology, intending to become a middle school teacher, he began his Ph.D. studies in Slavistics, and received his doctorate in 1883. After spending some time at well-known European universities, namely in the Neogrammarians' center of Leipzig (where Leskien was the leading Slavist), and Prague, Tomo Maretic first was appointed extraordinary professor for "Slavic philology with particular emphasis on Croatian and Serbian history of language and literature", in 1886, and ordinary professor three years later. Also in 1886, he became a corresponding member of the Yugoslav Academy of Science and Art, to which he was elected a full member four years later. Later, he twice became head of the philological-historical class of the academy, first from 1906-1913, then a second time from 1919-1928, after being president of the Academy in the years 1915-1918. Tomo Maretic died on January 15, 1938.

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