Natko Nodilo

Natko Nodilo (31 August 1834 – 21 May 1912) was a Croatian politician, historian, journalist, university professor, and chancellor of the University of Zagreb.

Born in Split, he studied theology in Zadar until 1856, when he dropped out of college and took a job as an auxiliary teacher at the Classical Gymnasium in Split. He received a degree in history and geography in Vienna in 1861.

He authored the first general history of the Middle Ages in the South Slavic area. He died in Zagreb. A street in Zagreb was named in his honor in 1931.