Vladimir Anić, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Vladimir Anić

Croatian linguist and lexicographer

Date of Birth: 21-Nov-1930

Place of Birth: Užice, Zlatibor District, Serbia

Date of Death: 30-Nov-2000

Profession: pedagogue, university teacher, science writer, linguist, lexicographer, slavicist

Nationality: Croatia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Vladimir Anić

  • Vladimir Anic (21 November 1930 – 30 November 2000) was a Croatian linguist and lexicographer.
  • He is best known as the author of Rjecnik hrvatskoga jezika (1991), the first modern single-volume dictionary of Croatian. Anic was born in Užice, Serbia.
  • He received a B.A.
  • degree in Yugoslav languages and literature and Russian language and literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb in 1956.
  • In 1963 he obtained a Ph.D.
  • with the thesis Language of Ante Kovacic.
  • He taught at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zadar from 1960 to 1974, when he moved to the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, becoming a full professor and head of the Department of Croatian literary language in 1976.Anic published more than two hundred papers, studies, reviews and assays in subject areas of syntax, phonology, accentuation, morphology, lexicography, lexicology, terminology and stylistics.
  • He taught at universities in Germany, Sweden and Slovenia. Vladimir Anic's most important and most widely known work is his dictionary of Croatian language.
  • Started in 1972 and finally published in December 1991, it appeared 90 years after the last comparable dictionary by Ivan Broz and Franjo Ivekovic was published in 1901.
  • Two more significantly expanded and revised editions followed in 1994 and 1998, while the fourth edition, complete with a CD-ROM version, was published posthumously in 2003.His two other major works are Pravopisni prirucnik hrvatskoga jezika (first published as Pravopisni prirucnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika in 1986), an orthographic manual coauthored with Josip Silic, and Rjecnik stranih rijeci (1999), a dictionary of loanwords in Croatian language, coauthored with Ivo Goldstein. As a linguist, Vladimir Anic was a staunch descriptivist; he saw his dictionary as "not a book of best words, but a book of all words", and stressed the need for language creativity and freedom as a counterweight against purism.He died in Zagreb.

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