Dalibor Brozović
| Dalibor Brozović | |
|---|---|
| Born |
28 July 1927 Sarajevo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, (now Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
| Died | 19 June 2009 (aged 81) Zagreb, Croatia |
| Occupation | Linguist |
| Relatives | Dunja Brozović-Rončević (daughter), philologist ; Ranko Matasović (nephew), philologist |
Dalibor Brozović (Croatian pronunciation: [dǎlibor brǒːzovit͡ɕ]; 28 July 1927, in Sarajevo – 19 June 2009, in Zagreb) was a Croatian linguist, Slavist, dialectologist and politician. He studied the history of standard Slavic languages, especially Croatian. He was an active Esperantist since 1946, and wrote Esperanto poetry as well as translated works into the language.
He was born in Sarajevo and went to primary school in Zenica. Then he went to comprehensive secondary schools in Visoko, Sarajevo and Zagreb. He received a BA degree in the Croatian language and Yugoslav literatures at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. In 1957, he received his Ph.D. with the thesis Speech in the Fojnica Valley.
Brozović worked as an assistant at the Zagreb Theater Academy (1952–1953) and as a lecturer at the University of Ljubljana (until 1956). He subsequently went to the Faculty of Philosophy in Zadar, becoming an associate professor (1956), docent (1958), extraordinary (1962) and full (1968-1990) professor. In 1969 he worked as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, and since 1971 at the University of Regensburg.
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