Radoslav Katičić
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July 3, 1930 Zagreb, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
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Slavistics Comparative linguistics Croatistics Slavic mythology Indology Classical philology |
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Radoslav Katičić (pronounced [rǎdɔslaʋ kâtitʃitɕ]) (born in Zagreb, July 3, 1930) is a Croatian linguist, classical philologist, Indo-Europeanist, Slavist and Indologist, one of the most prominent Croatian scholars in the field of humanities.
Radoslav Katičić was born on July 3, 1930 in Zagreb. In his birth city he attended primary school, and in 1949 he graduated at the Classical gymnasium.
At the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, he received a degree in Classical Philology in 1954. The same year he started working as a part-time librarian at the Seminar for Classical Philology at the same faculty. His first scientific works were on the subjects of Ancient Greek philology and Byzantine studies.
As a stipendist of the Greek government he visited Athens in 1956-57, and in 1958 he was elected as an assistant at the Department for Comparative Indo-European Grammar at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb.
In 1959 he received his Ph.D. with the thesis Pitanje jedinstva indoeuropske glagolske fleksije ('The question of unity of Indo-European verbal flexion'). During the period of 1960-61 he was a stipendist of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Tübingen. After the return to his main university, he became a docent on Indo-European and general linguistics. Soon after, he served as a head of the newly formed Department for General Linguistics and Oriental Studies. In 1966 he became associate, and in 1973 full professor. Beside general and Indo-European linguistics, he also taught Old Iranian and Old Indic philology.
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