Josip Bratulić


Josip Bratulić is a Croatian philologist, historian of literature and culture, and academic.
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 has been 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 has been 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, 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.

Works

Among many authored books, contributions, transliterations, translations, editing:
  • Apokrif o prekrasnom Josipu u hrvatskoj književnosti
  • Istarski razvod
  • Prva hrvatskoglagoljska početnica 1527.
  • Aleja glagoljaša Roč–Hum
  • Žitja Konstantina i Metodija i druga vrela
  • Prezimena i naselja u Istri I-III
  • Istarske književne teme
  • Vinodolski zakon
  • Izazov zavičaja
  • Sjaj baštine
  • Mrvice sa zagrebačkog stola
  • Leksikon hrvatske glagoljice
  • Hrvatska propovijed
  • Istra: zavičaj starina i ljepota
  • Pula: oduvijek
  • Hrvatska pisana kultura I-III
  • Hrvatski ex libris
  • Hrvatske autorske čestitke
  • Slavonske književnopovijesne teme
  • Pjesmarica Ane Katarine Zrinski
  • Priče o lijepim stvarima ili Blagdan skromnih darova
  • Hrvatske glagoljične i ćirilične isprave iz zbirke Stjepana Ivšića 1100. – 1527.: Acta Croatica
  • Aleja glagoljaša: stoljeća hrvatske glagoljice
  • ''Hrvatska glagoljica: Postanak, razvitak, značenje''