Background
Hercigonja was born in Croatia"s capital Zagreb in 1929.
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Eduard Hercigonja
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He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1970 with the thesis Jezik glagoljaške neliturgijske književnosti 15.
Career
After finishing primary and secondary school in Sisak, he received a degree in Slavic studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb. stoljeća i Petrisov zbornik ("Language of the Glagolitic non-liturgical literature and Petris" miscellany"). He was elected as a docent in 1970, as an associate professor in 1974, becoming a full professor in 1977. Since 1968 he serves as a head of the Chair for Old Church Slavonic language at the Department for Croatian Studies.
Membership
University professor and a member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, he authored several fundamental works on medieval Croatian literature and culture. Since 1977 he"s an associate, and since 1986 full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
