Zdravka Matišić

Zdravka Matišić (b. 16 June 1944, Travnik) is a Croatian Indologist and Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies and Hungarian Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy at Zagreb University.[1]

Zdravka Matišić
Born16 May 1944
Travnik
NationalityCroatian
Known forLiterary scholarship
Academic background
Alma materZagreb University
Academic work
Notable worksElements of Hindi Grammar (1996) (Croatian: Elementi hindske gramatike), the only manual for Hindi in Croatian

She is known for her work in both Sanskrit and modern Indian literature, her translations from Sanskrit, including a 1980 translation of Pañcatantra, and her linguistic study of the Hindi language.[1]

In 1996, she authored Elements of Hindi Grammar, the only manual for Hindi in Croatian.[1]

She is also active in historical research, including on the contributions of Croatian missionaries in India,[1] and authored the 2007 work Joy, Fear, Dedication: Contributions to the biography of Ivan Filip Vesdin Paulin and Sancto Bartholomaeo (Croatian: Radost, strah, predanost: Prilozi za biografiju Ivana Filipa Vesdina Paulina a Sancto Bartholomaeo).[2]

She co-authored India and Tibet by Nikola Ratkay (2002) (Croatian: Indije i Tibet Nikole Ratkaja) with Mate Križman.[3]

Bibliography

Author
  • Matišić, Zdravka (1996). Elements of Hindi Grammar [Elementi hindske gramatike] (in Croatian). ISBN 9789539657701.
  • Matišić, Zdravka (1999). "An intertextual reading of Rushdie's "Haroun and the Sea of Stories"". Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia. Faculty of Literature of the University of Zagreb. 44 (1999): 172–196.
  • Matišić, Zdravka (2007). Joy, Fear, Dedication: Contributions to the biography of Ivan Filip Vesdin Paulin and Sancto Bartholomaeo [Radost, strah, predanost: Prilozi za biografiju Ivana Filipa Vesdina Paulina a Sancto Bartholomaeo]. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (in Croatian).

Co-author
  • Križman, Mate; Matišić, Zdravka (2002). India and Tibet by Nikola Ratkay [Indije i Tibet Nikole Ratkaja]. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb (in Croatian). Bibliotheca Orientalica.

References
  1. "Matišić, Zdravka". Hrvatska enciklopedija (Croatian Encyclopedia). Miroslav Krleža Lexicographic Institute. 2021. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  2. "Radost, strah, predanost".
  3. "Indije i Tibet Nikole Ratkaja".
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