Petar Šimunović

Petar Šimunović (19 February 1933 – 5 August 2014) was a Croatian linguist, onomastician, dialectologist, lexicographer, and academic member of HAZU. He was considered as the most prominent Croatian onomastician (since the second half of the 20th century ), and contributed also in the field of dialectology (particularly about Chakavian dialect). State award in the field of humanistic sciences. In 2020, was published monography U početku bijaše ime, including works from international scientific conference "Tragovima onomastičkih istraživanja Petra Šimunovića" held in July 2019.

Selected works Šimunović as an author and co-author published over 500 scientific, scientific popular and professional articles, and 30 books. He was also main editor of academic journal Folia onomastica Croatica and member of editorial board of journal Rasprave. Collaborated in the writing of Grundsystem und Terminologie der slavischen Onomastik (1983), Słowiańska onomastyka – encyklopedia (2002).

Toponimija otoka Brača (1972) Brač - vodič po otoku (1972–1997) Leksik prezimena Socijalističke Republike Hrvatske (1976) Čakavisch-deutsches Lexikon I-III (1979–1983) Naša prezimena – porijeklo, značenje, rasprostranjenost (1985) Prezimena i naselja u Istri I-III (1985–1986) Istočnojadranska toponimija (1986) Hrvatska prezimena – porijeklo, značenje, rasprostranjenost (1995) Bračka toponimija (2004) Toponimija hrvatskoga jadranskog prostora (2005) Rječnik bračkih čakavskih govora (2006) Hrvatski prezimenik I-III (2008) Hrvatska u prezimenima (2008) Uvod u hrvatsko imenoslovlje (2009) Rječnik bračkih čakavskih govora (2009) Čakavska čitanka (2011)