Đuro Šurmin

Đuro Šurmin (4 September 1867 – 22 March 1937) was a Croatian literary historian and politician.

Biography He was born in Sišćani. He studied Slavic Studies, Classical Studies, and philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb since 1890, receiving a Ph.D. in 1897 with a thesis titled Riječi muškoga roda â-osnova u hrvatskom jeziku (Â-stem Words of Masculine Gender in Croatian). There, he worked as a teaching apprentice in Croatian and Serbian literature beginning in 1899, becoming a regular professor in 1906, and then serving as the dean between 1907 and 1908. In 1908, he temporarily retired, in 1910 reemployed, and, in 1921, permanently retired. but the most extensive bibliography was published by Lidija Bogović within the 2017 monograph on Šurmin, which also included Josipa Dragičević's bibliography of literature on Šurmin.

His scientific work was in the fields of history of literature, history and philology:

Povjest književnosti hrvatske i srpske (History of Croatian and Serbian Literature, 1898) Iz zajedničke književne prošlosti Bosne i Slavonije (From the Common Literary Past of Bosnia and Slavonia, 1901) Hrvatski preporod I–II (Croatian Revival, 1903–1904) Stvaranje Srbije (The Creation of Serbia, 1921) Osnovke ugovora u Londonu 1915. (The Principles of the 1915 Treaty of London, 1928) Vojska i hrvatska politika 1915. god. (The Army and Croatian Politics in 1915, 1932) As part of the Monumenta historico-juridica Slavorum meridionalium project he prepared a collection of medieval, predominantly Glagolitic monuments, which were published as Hrvatski spomenici (Croatian Monuments, 1898). His legacy is preserved in the Croatian State Archives in Zagreb.