Gustav Baron
Gustav Baron was a Croatian theologian, university professor and rector of the University of Zagreb.
He studied theology in Vienna and Zagreb. He was ordained for a priest in 1873. He received his Ph.D. in 1876 at the Faculty of Theology of the Royal University of Franz [Joseph I of Austria|Franz Joseph I]. He was professor and chair of the Archiepiscopal Gymnasium in Zagreb. He became a docent at the Faculty of Theology in 1877, and a full professor in 1881. He served as the dean of the faculty in two mandates.
Baron was selected as a rector of the University of Zagreb in the academic year 1885/1886. The topic of his inaugural speech was the Bible. After his rectorship mandate expired, he served as a prorector for a year. In 1887 he was appointed as papal agent. He was the canon and the rector of the Theological Seminary in Zagreb in the period 1897-1907, and a general vicar from 1912 until his death. He was one of the founders of the Croatian Catholic movement and a reviver of church singing tradition.