Josip Bratulić, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Josip Bratulić

Croatian philologist

Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1939

Place of Birth: Sveti Petar u Šumi, Istria County, Croatia

Profession: literary historian

Nationality: Croatia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Josip Bratulic (born 2 February 1939) is a Croatian philologist and a historian of literature and culture.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 is 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 is a regular member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.Bratulic participated in the preparation of a large number of cultural and scientific events, such as the exhibition Pisana rijec u Hrvatskoj ("The Written Word in Croatia"), and the development of the ethnopark Glagolitic Alley Roc–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.