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Acknowledgements
This text grew out from author's booklet - Darko Zubrinic:
"Faculty of Electrical Engineering"
(now "Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing"),
written in 1992. I am grateful to my coleagues,
but there are too many to name them all. However, special
thanks go to:
- dr. Dubravka Bosnic,
- prof.dr. Vladimir Cepulic,
- dr. Vladimir Dugacki,
- Academician Branko Fucic,
- mr. Alemko Gluhak,
- prof.dr. Ivan Ivansic,
- prof.dr Vatroslav Lopasic
(1911-2003),
- dipl.jur. Kresimir Mikolcic,
- prof.dr. Vladimir Muljevic,
- prof. Vlatko Ostric,
- prof.dr. Uros Perusko,
- ing. Zeljko Tomic.
I obtained valuable suggestions from dr. Trpimir Macan from the Croatian
Lexicographical Institute, who reviewed the part of the
text devoted to the history of Croatia. Needless to say,
and it is not just a pose, that the responsibility for
all mistakes should be born exclusively by the author.
I am also deeply indebted to (1995-...):
- Maja Matijasevic and Josip Juric: home page of Croatia,
- Vladimir Vuksan: the USA mirror,
- Slavka Jureta: Australian mirror (not active any more), CroNet Melbourne,
- prof.dr Mario Essert: Laboratory
for help to powerful and care for helpless,
- dr. Vlasta Lederer: Gordan Lederer,
- prof.dr Jadranka Skorin-Kapov: Istria,
- Ivo Penzar: Rudy Perpich,
- Leo Bosnic and Mario Cifrek: a part of scanning,
- Michael B. Savor: Croatian folk music,
- Natasa Hoic-Bozic,
- prof.dr Masa Marusic: reviewing of some texts,
- prof. Anadea Cupic: Blind Theatre Company,
- Nenad Paulic: architecture info,
- Drazen Budisa: letter of Peter Zrinski
to his wife Katarina,
- Adam S. Eterovich: Croats in the New World,
Haydn info,
- ing Vladimir Zerjavic: Jasenovac I, Jasenovac
II, Muslim-Bosniaks,
- prof.dr. Igor Primorac (Hebrew University, Jerusalem): Serbian
intellectuals and the war in the Balkans, Israel
and the war in the Balkans
- prof.dr. Josip Pecaric: Serbian Myth about Jasenovac
- Zeljko Lupic: helpful messages,
- Dragan Skropanic: Haydn's photo,
- Michel Iellatchitch: JELACIC
(in French)
- prof. Radovan Grgec: material related to Appeal of 43,000 American Croats to the League of Nations
in 1934.
- Jet Set journal, for permission to reproduce photos related to the
King of Dolls, and above all to kindness of
Mr. Ljeposlav Perinic and his daughter Mrs. Zdravka Teresa Perinic de
Bellofatto (Buenos Aires). My deepest gratitude to Carlos Seran for
his translation of this web page into Spanish, and to Dmitry Vedushenko
for his translation into Russian (molodec!).
My thanks also go to Mr. Velimir Mihalic from "Gradski ured za kulturu",
Zagreb, for help with the literature.
- Franjo Maric, for photos representing tattooing of Bosnian women, Gabrijel
Jurkic page and numerous jpges of this outstanding painter, information
about the related Truhelka's paper, for his valuable
books, several photos related to Kristian
Krekovic (in particular the one from Salon de Paris
- Une vue de Bosnie, 1925).
- prof.dr Vladimir Goss,
for his kind help with art pages, and also here.
- To dr. Emil Hersak for his nice glagolitic
font.
- Mr Marko Puljic for his translations of Bosnian
Queen Katarina and The Croatian Bunjevci
from Croatian.
- Academician Borislav Arapovic, Stockholm, for permission to reproduce
"A Remarkable Address given by a Croatian
Minister to Those going to War and due to its Excellency Translated
into German" [Dutch, Swedish, Latvian].
- Nikola Biskup, for his very nice web pages about beautiful VELIKI TABOR bourg, and of course to prof.
Josip Stimac and dipl. ing. Darko Tumpa for their generous help.
- Dr. Katarina Livljanic, DIALOGOS, ensemble
vocal féminin, Paris
- Professor Halina Watrobska from Slavonic Department of the University
of Gdansk, Poland, for her contribution regarding remains of the Croatian
glagolitic heritage in Poland (Krakow, Holesnica).
- Mr. Marcel Jellacic (de la noblesse Croate), for contributing Rod
Jelacica
- Mr. Jozo Cikes contributed an important presentation of Pasionska
bastina in Croatia, a member of Europassion. Many thanks to Mr.
Sinisa Reberski for jpg's.
- Mr. Ivica Relkovic for contributing several
articles related to the Hague Tribunal and human rights, and to Antonija
Pavic for her translation from Croatian original:
- Vlatko Kupreskic (martyrdom in Bosnia
and in the Hague),
- Ivo Masina (My dear mother), many thanks to Mr.
Davor Klarin for his help with photos.
- Mr. Pavle Balenovic for his nice animated gif of
Lik, the famous wolf
- Prof. Julija Vojkovic from Hrvatska zena, for her generous help with
glagolitic
cards, scanning, etc.
- Prof. Marija Kraljic from Vrbnik, for having sent me scanned copy
of the stolen leaf missing from the Vrbnik
II Missal (1456), held in the Princeton University Library
- Professor Roland Marti from the University of Saarbrücken
for information about a glagolitic manuscript
held in the Basel University Library, Switzerland
- Dr. Josip Kolanovic, director of the Croatian State Archives, for
selected pages from the Cika Breviary,
etc.
- Prof. Marijana Jaksic for help in preparing texts in Croatian language
- Mr. Branimir Butkovic for several photos of national
costumes of Bunjevci
Croats
- Mr. Vladimir Novak, for his information about
Kristian Krekovic, and for
rare photos related to
Croatian diaspora
- Dr. Zdenka Lechner and Mr. Robert Los for nice photos
of Croatian national costumes
- My sincere gratitude goes to the National Library of
Oslo and Mr. Martin
Shoyen, Norway, for kind information about and photos of
Croatian glagolitic vellum leaves from
the island of Krk, early 15th century
- to the State Library (Staatsbibliothek) in Berlin, in particular to Mr
Zvonko Plepelic, for photos of the Berlin
Missal
- Ms Marina Krekovic for her help with information and
photos related to Kristian Krekovic, pintor
croata - peruano
- Prof.dr. Mile Bace, for photos of Professors Danilo
Blanusa and Vatroslav Lopasic
- Mr. Tomislav Petricevic for information about Professor Eduard Miloslavic and his sentence to death by ex-Yugoslavia for his testimony related to the Katyn wood tragedy
- Mr. Dragutin Lugarec, dipl. jur., for quickscript glagolitic
documents from 16th century concerning Kupcina near Zagreb
(Pisarovina region)
- Mr. Zvonimir Frka-Petesic (Ambassade de Croatie, Paris), for permission to use his photos (Ivica i Janica Kostelic,
Lauranas' work in Naples - Castel Nuovo, postage stamp dedicated to the Villefranche tragedy in France)
- Mr Ivan Dubravcic, for information about
- prof. Grozdana Franov - Zivkovic, for her contribution
related to quickscript glagolitic heritage in
the region of Zadar and testaments of the Zadar
princes
- Mrs. Zdravka Teresa Perinic de Belofatto (Buenos Aires) for
her translation of my article about Kristian
Krekovic from
Croatian into
Spanish; also to Cika Mikolcic and
Milica Mikolcic for their help with biographical data
- Mr. Niko Kapetanic and Nenad Vekaric for the summary of their
book [The Population of Konavle].
- Mr. Darko Dekovic, president of Matica hrvatska Rijeka, for
permission to use the photos from the book by Ivan Radic,
Zasopimo sopile, MH Rijeka, 1995.
- Nensi Brailo, M.Sc., for the abstract of her Master Thesis LIBROCIDE: DESTRUCTION OF LIBRARIES IN
CROATIA, 1991-1995, USA
- Prof. Pave Brailo, for having sent me the booklet
[Menalo] about
Croatian medieval sculpture from the region of Dubrovnik, with
rich interlace ornaments.
- Mr. Nino Marcutti for very nice photos of Croatian mountains
- my deep gratitude goes to Ms. Margalida Garau and
Mr. Climent Romaguera from
the Museu Krekovic in Palma del Mallorca, directed by Consell
de Mallorca, for generous help (2003) with the literature ([Gaspar Sabater]),
for beautiful photos (and permission for their use on this web),
for nice prospects and the accompaning material related to
outstanding and still litle known Croatian artist (even in
Croatia) Kristian
Krekovic
- Mr. Stjepan Sucic from Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, for
information about articles about Kristian
Krekovic published by
Anto Cigeljevic in Hrvatski Glasnik,
Glasilo hrvatskog kulturnog drustva "Napredak" zupe Soli (= Tuzla).
- Mr. Darko Varga
(from Bilje, Baranja) for having contributed Angster's
and Mittepacher's
biographies to
this web, and also for photos of several national
costumes from the village of Draz, Baranja near Danube.
- Mr. Franjo Seric, for help in collecting biographical data
about Kristian Krekovic
- Mr. Anto Cigeljevic, for help in collecting biographical data
about Kristian Krekovic
- Mr. Ruggero Cattaneo, Milano, for the summary of his work about
Bosnian Franciscan Filip
Lastric and help with information about a book of Italian
encyclopaedist G.B. Palatino
- Mr. Zdenko Naglic, Göteborg, for his
information about Croatian Glagolitic books held in the
University Library of Uppsala in Sweden
- Ms Najka Mirkovic,
photographer (e-mail: najka.mirkovic@atlas.hr), Dubrovnik, for her
contribution to the Dubrovnik web page
- dr. Branko Franolic, London, for his permission to use the
photos from his monograph related to Richard Daniel's presentation of Croatian
Glagolitic
- Mr. Martin Lazar for remarks about the Dubrovnik web page
- rev. Vladimir Magic, Metropolitana Library in Zagreb, for
kind permission to
reproduce photos of glagolitic manuscripts, also to s. Edit Budin from
the same Library, and to Julija Vojkovic for taking the photos
- dr. fra Bono Vrdoljak, for information about his find
of Croatian glagolitic epigraphic inscription from 1368 in Livno (groblje
sv. Ive) and a few
grafittos, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Mr. Damir Borovcak, for help with portraits of
King Tomislav and King Kresimir IV by Kristian
Krekovic,
reproduced in the book
Sacred crown of the Kingdom of Croatia by Ivo Omrcanin, Dorrance & Company,
Philadelphia, 1973.
- Prof. dr. Vladimir Muljevic for biography of prof. dr.
Vatroslav Lopasic
- Mr. Ivan Pahernik for four photos of Kristian
Krekovic's
works of art
- to dr. Zdravka Culig for her photos related to natural
beauties in Croatia (see Croatian folk songs and
Medimurske pjesme)
- to Prof. Cika Mikolcic for information related to Kristian
Krekovic, Croatian-Peruvian painter, and for her translation
of Llorenc Vidal's essey Kristian Krekovic, su museo y su
mensaje de paz from Spanish into
Croatian
- Prof. Branko Dakic for a photo of his pupil Gordan
Lederer, killed in 1991
- Prof.dr. Tomislav Petkovic for his
precise information about the work of Heinirch Ott correcting
Planck's formulas from relativistic phenomenological
thermodynamics, published
16 years after Blanusa's work
- photo studio Ipik, Zagreb, for very nice photos of Croatian
national costumes
- Prof. Zeljko Hanjs for permission to use the photo of
Professor Eduard Prugovecki from Matematicko fizicki list
- Mr. Ivan Pavacic for information about the famous Istrian
scale in music
- to the staff of Department of Electroacoustics of the Faculty
of Electrical Engineering and Computing (in particular
to dipl.ing Sanja Grubesa, dipl.ing. Marko Horvat, and dr. Hrvoje
Domitrovic, head of the department) for professional help in
audio recording
very old Croatian glagolitic texts, as well to mr.
Stjepan Bahert from the Teatar u gostima,
- to Ms Visnja Miocic (editor in chief of Croatian
Chronicle) and Mr Vedran Nazor, New York, for the photo of
Augustincic's Horsewoman (Peace) in front of the
main building of UN, and two photos of Mestrovic's Chicago
Indians
- Mr Nenad Bach,
New York, for his information regarding
Robert
Schenk, Harry Dean
Stanton,
Raukar's
icesculpturing, and overall help and
advice with www.croatianhistory.net, in particular for permission to use
the following songs on this web
- Mr. Ivo Bach, New York, for generous help in preparing mp3-s of his father's
music
- Dr. Olga Pylyavska, Kiev, Ukraine, for information about the
legend about Kij, Shchek and Horev (= Horvat = Croat)
- Prof. Zdravko Sljivac for information about Zvjezdice children choir, and permission
to use their recordings for Croatian Christmas
Songs
- Mr. Vedran Joseph Nazor, president of Croatian-American
Academy, for information related to
Amarican-Croatian sportsmen in the USA
- Dr. Juraj Njavro, surgeon of the Vukovar Hospital in 1991,
for his kind permision to use his presentation of the Martyrdom
in Croatian Homeland War
- Mr. Darko Dekovic, for permision to use photos from the
monograph [Barbalic, Marendic]
for Croatian Mariners in the New World
- dr. Maciej Paluszynski, Wroclaw (Poland), for information about Augustincic's
monument of Jozef Pilsudski, a Polish marshal.
- Mr. Zvonko Springer, Salzburg, Austria, for Zvonko's Travels
- Mr. Ladislav Agabekov for information and photos related to the famous lighting
company Agabekov
SA.
- Mr. Ivo Lusic, Johannesburg,
for many useful suggestons, photos related to Croats in South Africa
- to Rev. Frane Mihanovic, editor in chief of Poljica, for kind permission
to publish an article by Andjelko Nedo Paveskovic (Monte Carlo):
Skladatelj Josip Haiden (Haydn) Hrvat ili Nijemac? (Was
Josip Haiden Croatian or German?), Poljica, Gata, 2001, broj 26, pp. 61-107
- Mr. Ivan Szabo, Innsbruck, and his father Mr. Aleksandar Szabo, Zagreb,
for photos of 1405 Croatian coat of arms in Innsbruck
- Mr. Joseph Birkas for his beautiful photo of the Sokolac
fortress in Brinje, Lika
- Ms. Charlotte Wennerlund, Sweden, for permission to publish the portrait
of Engela
Wunnerlund, her grandmother, and to Mr. Jozo Babic for his kind help
- Dr. Bruno Blaskovic for providing this web with Dora
Pejacevic's Allegro
- Dr. Luca Leoni, Velletri (near Rome) for help related to Filip
Vezdin, the
founder of European Indology
- Mr. Youri Agabekov for kind permission to
use the photos of the lighting company Agabekov SA, and to his son Mr. Ladislav
Agabekov for help and advices
- Mrs. Ingeborg Möller Rizo (UN, New York) for sending me a copy
of her Memoire
de
Maitrise in 2006, entitled "Krisitan Krekovic", written in French in
1974 (Cours Universitaire Cluny). Many thanks also to Nenad
Bach for bringing
the copy from
New York to
Zagreb.
- Ms Ljerka Golic and Mr Domagoj Petric from HMI (Croatian Heritage Foundation,
Zagreb) for permission to use a photo of two portraits by Kristian
Krekovic
- Ms Smiljana Sunde and Vesna Svagusa for photos of the famous sword
of Petar Zrinski kept in Perast
- Professor Andrija Tomasek for the partitures of Milan Grakalic containing
the arrangement of "Vu plavem trnaci" (Gjuro Prejac) for classical guitar
- Academician Ante Sekulic for help in preparing the web page about Bunjevci
Croats
- Prof. Dr. Zvonko Bencic for his suggestion to create www.oldcroatianletters.com web
- Mr. Senko Markulin for information about Asaf
Durakovic and Perica Vlasic
- Mrs. Zdenka Farkas for help related to The Wall
of Pain web page
- Mr. Jal Schrof, USA, for permission to use his photos from CroatiaFest for
my Chords for Croatian Folk Songs, and also
to Mr Beverly Read from CroatiaFest
- Prof. Julija Vojkovic, for permission to use her photos for my pages
of Croatian Coat of Arms, The
Wall of Pain (Zid boli), etc.
- Ms. Marijana Spoljaric for her photos of the Kosinj valley,
one of the most beautiful vallies in Croatia
- prof. Zlatan Kovac and prof. Damir Facan for invitation to Zadobarje
near Karlovac where in a local church a Croatian Glagolitic inscription
from 1539 has recently been discovered during uncovering of old frescos
- dipl.ing. Slavko Kirin, an expert for cheeses, Sirela Bjelovar, Croatia,
for permission to include his two very interesting articles about Livanjski
sir and Sir Trapist in BiH, published by Mljekarstvo (Dairy) journal
in 2003
- Mr. Darko Sagrak, dipl. iur., for help with the photos of Milan
Sufflay
- Mr. Tomislav Mihatov for photos of glagolitic inscriptions from the
church of St. Marko Grob and from the church of St. Hipolit
- Mr. Oleh Hirnyk, Lviv, Ukraine, for information about Vladimir
Rozov
- Donald Wolf, Kansas City, USA, for contributing St.
John's Croatian Catholic school in Kansas City
- Vedran Zuzak, Zadar, for his
diploma thesis Glagoljska epigrafika zadarskog otocja [PDF,
70 pp.] and permission to install
it on this web
- Professor Yoshinori Kametaka, Kyoto, for his kind information about
recordings of "U boj" (from the opera
N.S. Zrinski) in Japan
- Ms Nena Kazulin, USA, for additional information about Mario Puratic
(from Sumartin on the island of Brac) and his famous Puretic
Power Block
- Dr. Zdenko Zeravica and prof. Najka
Mirkovic, Dubrovnik for the catalogue
Arheoloska bastina Zupe dubrovacke (Archeologica heritage of
Zupa dubrovacka), containing among others an important information about
discovery of a
Glagolitic inscription from 11th century
- Mr Ljubo De Karina, Croatian sculptor, for information that Mestrovic''s
Chicago Indians had been cast in Zagreb, as well as Augustincic's Monument
of Peace (Horsewoman)
- Prof. Ksenija Sunic, for sending me a biography of Franjo
Dugan and
photos
- Dr. Branko Franolic, London, for information about Croatian - Argentinean
painter Zdravko Ducmelic
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