Vladimir Mažuranić – Full Member and President of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts

Pravni povjesničar i književnik Vladimir Mažuranić bio je pravi član1 i predsjednik Jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti, današnje Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti. Vladimir Mažuranić potječe iz ugledne vinodolske obitelji koja je imala istaknutu ulogu u hrvatskoj pravnoj te političkoj i kulturnoj povijesti. Bio je polivalentna ličnost: uz temeljito poznavanje uprave i duboko shvaćanje prava, bio je i književnik – pisao je pjesme, dramske tekstove i biografske studije – ali ponajprije istaknuti znanstvenik. Jugoslavenska akademija izdala je u razdoblju 1908. – 1922. u deset svezaka njegovo kapitalno znanstveno djelo Prinosi za hrvatski pravno-povjestni rječnik, a 1923. i autorove Dodatke ukupnog opsega od 1.756 stranica. Začuđuje činjenica da u našoj znanosti još uvijek nema potpunije ocjene značenja i dometa toga djela. Za predsjednika Jugoslavenske akademije izabran je u svibnju 1918. Gospodarske, političke i društvene okolnosti koje su nastale nakon završetka Prvoga svjetskog rata dodatno su otežale Mažuranićev trogodišnji mandat na čelu Akademije.Vladimir Mažuranić, legal historian and writer, was full member and president of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (today the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts). Vladimir Mažuranić was a descendant of a distinguished Vinodol family, which played a significant part in the Croatian legal, political and cultural history. He was a polyvalent personality: apart from having had detailed knowledge of the administration and thorough comprehension of law, he was a writer and a poet, and wrote dramatic texts and biographical studies; above all, however, he was a distinguished scientist. In the period 1908–1922, the Yugoslav Academy published his capital scientific work – Prinosi za hrvatski pravno-povjestni rječnik (The Croatian Dictionary of History and Law) in ten volumes, and in 1923, the author’s Dodaci (Appendices) on a total of 1,756 pages followed. It is a rather surprising fact that up to the present, in our science, no comprehensive evaluation of this work’s level of importance has been made. Mažuranić was elected President of the Yugoslav Academy in May 1918. His three-year presidential mandate at the Academy was additionally complicated by the economic, political and social circumstances following World War One

IN MEMORIAM: PROFESSOR EMERITUS FRANJO RUŽA (1931. – 2017.)

IN MEMORIAM: PROFESSOR EMERITUS FRANJO RUŽA (1931. – 2017.