Background
Bošković-Stulli was born in Osijek to a Jewish family of Dragutin and Ivanka Bošković.
Bošković-Stulli was born in Osijek to a Jewish family of Dragutin and Ivanka Bošković.
Bošković-Stulli finished elementary and secondary school in Zagreb. She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb and received her Doctor of Philosophy in 1961.
She joined the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia – SKOJ (from Serbo-Croatian: Savez komunističke omladine Jugoslavije) during Gymnasium education. In 1943, after the capitulation of Italy and liberation of the Rab concentration camp, she joined the Partisans. She took part in many national and international conferences and symposiums, including the Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik.
Foreign many years she was chief editor, and afterwards a regular member, of the editorial board for the journal Narodna umjetnost.
She worked at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and from 1952 until her retirement in 1979 she worked at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb. From 1963-1973 she was the Director of the Institute.
Bošković-Stulli wrote around twenty books and a large number of papers in national and international academic journals. She was a regular member at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
In 2005 Bošković-Stulli was named among 35 Croatia"s most important women in history.
Bošković-Stulli died on 14 August 2012 in Zagreb and was buried at the Mirogoj Cemetery.
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.