Milan Moguš

Milan Moguš (; 27 April 1927 – 19 November 2017) was a Croatian linguist and academician.

Biography Moguš was born in Senj, where he finished primary school and high school. In the academic year 1948/49 he attended in Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb and graduated in 1953.

In 1977 he was elected to associate membership of the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts, and in 1986 he became a full member. From 1985 until 1991 he was a secretary of the academy's Class for the Science of Philology. From 1991 until 1997 he was secretary-general of the academy, and from 1998 until 2003 he was vice-president of the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts. Since 1 January 2004 until 11 November 2010 he has been president of the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts.

Works He published by himself or as a co-author these works: Scholarly monographs: "Today's Speech in Senj", "Phonological Development of Croatian Language", "Chakavian Dialect", "Antun Mažuranić, Azbukoprotres (Alphabetical Earthquake) of Savo Mrkalj", "Križanić's Croatian Grammar", "Law of Trsat", "History of Croatian Literary Language" (published in Croatian, English and German), "Croatian Language in Croatian Sabor" (published in Croatian and English), "Ivan Mažuranić: Death of Smail Aga Čengić; 4 computer concordance works of Croatian writers; 6 dictionaries: Croatian-English, Croatian-French, "Hrvatski čestotni rječnik", "Dictionary of Marulić's Judita", Slownik polsko-chorwacki (Polish-Croatian dictionary), "Dictionary of Senj"; Critical editions of two Marulić's works (Judita and Naslidovanje); Manual "Croatian Orthography" (until now 9 editions); About 270 scientific and technical studies and articles in the field of Croatian and Slavic philology and linguistics in over 60 domestic and foreign journals