Background
He was born in the small town of Oriovac in Brod-Posavina County, even though his biological parents are from Hrvatsko Zagorje.
He was born in the small town of Oriovac in Brod-Posavina County, even though his biological parents are from Hrvatsko Zagorje.
He attended primary school in Oriovac, and gymnasium in Slavonski Brod, Osijek and finally in Zagreb. Afterwards he remained working as an assistant at the Faculty of Philosophy, defending his Doctor of Philosophy in 1962 and receiving full professorship in 1975.
In 1948 he got employed in Industrogradnja, soon after the political winds threw him to Petrinjska prison. After Petrinjska he enrolled to Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb in 1949, graduating in 1955 Croatian, Russian and German. He was the vice-president of Matica Hrvatska from 1989 to 1992, and representative in the Županijski Dom (Chamber of the Counties) from 1993 to 1997.
He retired as professor in 1991.
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.