Martin Sekulić
Martin Sekulić was a mathematics and physics teacher from Karlovac, one of the few high-school professors who were members of the Croatian community of physicists at the time.
Biography
Martin Sekulić was born in Lovinac. He taught at the Higher Real School in Rakovac.He was a corresponding member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was also a member of the Croatian pedagogic and literary society.
He published several articles in German-language journals, such as in the Annalen der Physik in 1872 and 1875.
He published several works in the Rad journal of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, such as Fluorescencija i calcescencija and Iztraživanje sunčane duge. In the 1871 treatise, he explains the effect of the luminescence in some elements and in the 1873 one he talks about the visible spectrum of the sun's light. In the 1871 treatise, Sekulić also predicted the existence of electromagnetic oscillations at different frequencies.
During the period in which Martin Sekulić was the custodian of the science cabinet of his high school, he would inform his students of the very latest discoveries in the world of physics, and by the school year 1880/81 they had amassed a total of 277 machines for demonstration purposes, including a spectroscope modified by Sekulić himself.
Sekulić died in Zagreb.