Aleksandar Stipčević

Aleksandar Stipčević (10 October 1930 – 1 September 2015) was an Arbanas Croatian archeologist, bibliographer, librarian and historian of Albanian origin He was a full professor at the University of Zagreb from 1987 until his retirement in 1997.

His 1974 book Iliri ("The Illyrians") has been translated into English, Italian and Albanian. He was awarded the Order of Skanderbeg by Albania.

Works Gli Iliri ("Illyrians"; 1966) Arte degli Illiri ("The Illyrian Art"; 1963) Iliri: povijest, život, kultura (1974) Bibliografija antičke arheologije u Jugoslaviji (I–II, 1977) Kultni simboli kod Ilira ("The Illyrian Cult Symbols"; 1981) Povijest knjige ("The History of Books"; 1985, extended edition in 2006) Cenzura u knjižnicama ("Censorship and Libraries"; 1992) O savršenom cenzoru (1994) Sudbina knjige (2000) Socijalna povijest knjige u Hrvata (I–III, 2004–08) Tradicijska kultura zadarskih Arbanasa (2011) Some of them are translated to other languages.

He was the editor-in-chief of the second volume of the Croatian Biographical Lexicon (1983–1989).