Milan Moguš
| Milan Moguš | |
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Moguš in June 2008
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| Chairman of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts | |
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In office 1 January 2004 – 11 November 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Ivo Padovan |
| Succeeded by | Zvonko Kusić |
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27 April 1927 Senj, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (now Croatia) |
| Nationality | Croat |
| Alma mater | University of Zagreb |
| Profession | Linguist |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
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Milan Moguš (pronounced [ˌmǐlan ˈmôɡuːʃ]) (born 27 April 1927) is a Croatian linguist and academician.
He was born in Senj, where he finished primary school and high school. In the academic year 1948/49 he attended in Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb (VIII. group: people's language and literature) and he graduated in 1953. In the same year he was elected as assistant to the Academy's Institute for Language, and in 1956 he performed the same duties at the Faculty of Philosophy at University in Zagreb in the Department for Dialectology and History of Croatian Language. From 1961 until 1963 he was Lector of Croatian language at University of Warsaw. He got his doctorate of philology sciences in 1962 at University in Zagreb. In 1964 he became docent, in 1969 he was Associate Professor, and in 1975 he was Full Professor at the University. From 1965 until his retirement in 1992 he was Chairman of the Department for Dialectology and History of Croatian Language. In school years 1970/71 and 1971/72 he was a Professor at Faculty of Philosophy. At the same Faculty from 1976 he taught postgraduate studies of linguistic direction, and from 1979 until 1985 he was a leader of that postgraduate study. Since 1983 until 1992 he was a Head of the Institute for Linguistics of Faculty of Philosophy.
He taught as a Guest Professor at Universities in Cologne and Mannheim. He attended many international assemblies and congresses. For a long time he was a member of International Committee for Onomastic Science in Leuven, and member of International Committee for Phonetics and Phonology of Slavic Languages in Moscow and also President of the Interacademic Committee of Onomastics in Zagreb. In 1997 he became a member of Central European Academy of Science and Art. From 1998 until 2002 he was a President of the Croatian Commission for UNESCO.
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