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About August Kovačec
- August Kovacec (born 6 August 1938) is Croatian linguist and Romanicist.He was born in Donje Jesenje.
- He received a degree in Romance and Russian philology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb in 1960, and a PhD in 1965.
- From 1960 to 1962, he worked as Croatian language editor at the University of Bucharest.
- In 1962 he started working at the Department of Romance Languages at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, becoming professor in 1983.
- From 1966 to 1967 he went to Paris to further study under André Martinet and Émile Benveniste.Since 1997, he has been a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and since 2011 a secretary of its Department of Philology.His work is focused on the Istro-Romanian language (Opis današnjeg istrorumunjskog – Descrierea istroromânei actuale, 1971; Istrorumunjsko-hrvatski rjecnik: (s gramatikom i tekstovima), 1998) as well as Jewish-Spanish spoken in Dubrovnik and Sarajevo and their contacts with Croatian.
- He published papers on French language, Romance comparative syntax, on Balkans languages and Romance literatures (Francuska književnost XIV.
- do XVI.
- st., Rumunjska književnost, in: Povijest svjetske književnosti, book 3, 1982).
- At the Miroslav Krleža Lexicographical Institute he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Croatian General Lexicon (1991–1996), then deputy editor (1996–2001) and finally the Editor-in-Chief of Croatian Encyclopedia (2001–2005).
- His articles on Croatian language policy meet criticism, arising from Kovacec's puristic approach to language and the primordialist view of nations.
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