{"id":5325,"date":"2021-02-19T12:09:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T11:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/clanovi\/kovacec-august\/"},"modified":"2023-02-10T14:25:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T13:25:47","slug":"kovacec-august","status":"publish","type":"clanovi","link":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/clanovi\/kovacec-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Kova\u010dec August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Academic titles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>professor emeritus (10\/14\/2008 &#8211; &#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts<\/li>\n<li>doctor of Science<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Institutions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor (retired) &#8211; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb<\/li>\n<li>professor emeritus &#8211; The University of Zagreb (10\/14\/2008 &#8211; &#8230;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Functions in Academy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>secretary &#8211; Department of Philological Sciences (01\/01\/2011 &#8211; 12\/31\/2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Membership in Academy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>full member &#8211; Department of Philological Sciences (01\/30\/1997 &#8211; &#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>associate member &#8211; Department of Philological Sciences (05\/17\/1990 &#8211; 01\/30\/1997)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Biography<\/h3>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><strong>August Kova\u010dec<\/strong>, Croatian linguist and romanist was born in Donje Jesenje on August 6, 1938. <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">He completed his studies in Romance and Russian philology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 1960; Doctorate in 1965 with dissertation <em>Opis dana\u0161njeg istrorumunjskog<\/em>. He was proofreader of croatian language at the University of Bucharest (1960\u201362). Since 1962 he has been working in the Department of Romanian language and literatures at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb (since 1983 full professor, since 2008 professor emeritus). In 1966\/67 he specialized in Paris with A. Martinet and \u00c9. Benveniste. He has been a full member of the CASA since 1997 and secretary of the Department of Philological Sciences 2011 &#8211; 2018. He was particularly concerned with Istro-Romanian language (<em>Opis dana\u0161njeg istrorumunjskog \u2013 Descrierea istrorom\u00e2nei actuale<\/em>, 1971; <em>Istrorumunjsko-hrvatski rje\u010dnik: (s gramatikom i tekstovima<\/em>), 1998) and Jewish-Spanish language in Dubrovnik and Sarajevo, as well as with contacts of these idioms with Croatian language. His 1971 monography on Istro-Romanian received the Romanian Academy Award for best book of the past year on Romanian. He published papers on French language, comparative Roman syntax (coincidences between Dacia and Iberoromania), on Balkan languages and on Roman literature (<i>Francuska knji\u017eevnost XIV. do XVI.\u00a0st., Rumunjska knji\u017eevnost,<\/i>\u00a0u:\u00a0<i>Povijest svjetske knji\u017eevnosti,<\/i> Book 3, 1982). At the Lexicographic Institute <em>Miroslav Krle\u017ea<\/em> was editor-in-chief of the <em>Croatian General Lexicon<\/em> (1991\u201396), then assistant editor-in-chief (1996\u20132001) and editor-in-chief of the <em>Croatian Encyclopedia<\/em> (2001\u201305). He received the National Lifetime Achievement Science Award (2009).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18534,"template":"","vrste_clanova":[97],"razredi":[89],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/clanovi\/5325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/clanovi"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/clanovi"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/clanovi\/5325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30549,"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/clanovi\/5325\/revisions\/30549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"vrste_clanova","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vrste_clanova?post=5325"},{"taxonomy":"razredi","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/razredi?post=5325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}