Josip Bratulić

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

Josip Bratulić (born February 2, 1939) is a Croatian philologist and a historian of literature and culture.

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 is 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 is a regular member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

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.