Pero Budmani

Pero Budmani
Born	October 27, 1835 Dubrovnik, Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austria (now Croatia)
Died	December 27, 1914 Castel Ferretti, Ancona, Italy
Pen name	Pero
Occupation	linguist and philologist
Notable works	Grammatica della lingua serbo-croata (illyrica).

Petar "Pero" Budmani (October 27, 1835 - December 27, 1914) was a writer, linguist, grammarian, and philologist from Dubrovnik and a renowned polyglot of Croatian origin.

Budmani was born in Dubrovnik/Ragusa on the 27th of October 1835.

Budmani was one of the first persons to have used the combined term Croatian and Serbian into "Serbo-Croat (Illyrian)". . It was first used by the German Jacob Grimm in 1824 and the Austrian-Slovenian Slavist Jernej Kopitar in 1836. He wrote a seminal book in Italian called Grammatica della lingua serbo-croata (illyrica) that described the Serbo-Croatian grammar, published in Vienna in 1867. Because it was written primarily as a manual for use in the gymnasia in Dalmatia, it was restricted in scope and space, but it soon received high praise from Đuro Daničić in Rad JAZU #2 in 1868. Budmani's description of the limited use of aorist and imperfect and the subtleties of perfect was consistent with Croatian vernacular at the time.

Between 1868 and 1882, he taught in the Gymnasium (high school) of his hometown. In 1883 he reached Zagreb where he edited the Riječnik (Dictionary) of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, based in Zagreb, Croatia, then part of Austria-Hungary. He was also a corresponding member of both the Serbian Learned Society (inducted: January 24, 1871) and the Serbian Royal Academy (from January 23, 1888).

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