ZAGREB, Nov 27 (Hina) - Academician Milan Mogus was elected president of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) on Friday. At today's electoral assembly, Mogus was supported by 86 of the 122 full HAZU members, while his
rival, academician Ivo Slaus, won 28 votes.
ZAGREB, Nov 27 (Hina) - Academician Milan Mogus was elected
president of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) on
Friday. At today's electoral assembly, Mogus was supported by 86 of
the 122 full HAZU members, while his rival, academician Ivo Slaus,
won 28 votes. #L#
Croatian academicians also elected two vice-presidents, one being
Alica Wertheimer Baletic, the first woman in the history of the HAZU
to be elected a vice-president. Wertheimer Baletic won the support
of 100 academicians. The other vice-president is Pavle Despalj.
Slavko Cvetnic was elected the academy's secretary-general as the
one candidate who ran for the post.
Academy members also elected the HAZU Presidency and other bodies.
Mogus is a renowned philologist, who was a professor at Zagreb's
Faculty of Philosophy. He is the author and co-author of a number of
monographs, dictionaries and hand-books and more than 230 essays
and articles on philology and linguistics.
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