Education
Badalić attended primary school in his native city and Kostajnica, and the gymnasium in Zagreb. After finishing the gymnasium he went to university in Vienna where he graduated with a degree in Classical philology in 1874.
Badalić attended primary school in his native city and Kostajnica, and the gymnasium in Zagreb. After finishing the gymnasium he went to university in Vienna where he graduated with a degree in Classical philology in 1874.
The same year he was appointed as a teacher of the Grandy Gymnasium in Zagreb. In 1879 he served as a professor at the gymnasium in Rijeka, returning in 1882 to Zagreb where he worked at the gymnasium in Gornji Graduate. From 1884, he served as the director of a female high school in Zagreb, and from 1896 as the first director of the newly established Grand Gymnasium in Zagreb"s Donji Graduate.
He published writings in Agramer Tagblatt, Napredak, Hrvatska vila, Velebit and many other periodicals.
In 1884, he was elected to the committee of Matica hrvatska, where he edited a number of Matica"s editions among which the collection of poetry Hrvatska antologija (Zagreb, 1892) can be singled out as the most notable. Badalić was the author of numerous literary discussions, recensions, pedagogic articles, and together with Ivan Broz, wrote the mandatory high-school handbook Poetika i stilistika za Hrvatsku čitanku za niže razrede srednje škole.
He also published a collection of romantic songs: "Zlatno doba" (publisher Franz Bondy, Wien).