assistant historian professor theorist
At the same faculty he received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1964 with a thesis on Fran Galović.
At the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences he earned a degree in philosophy and Yugoslav studies in 1959. Since 1963 he worked as an assistant, then as a docent and as an associate, and finally since 1976 as a full tenured professor of literature theory and methodology of the study of literature at the Department for Comparative Literature. In the period of 1987-1990 he also served as Social Research Croatia"s minister of education and culture.
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.