UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR MIROSLAV BEKER PASSES AWAY

ZAGREB, Dec 30 (Hina) - A university professor and outstanding Croatian literary historian and translator, Miroslav Beker, died in Zagreb on Sunday. #L# Beker, born in Karlovac in 1926, became an assistant lecturer at the English literature department at Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb in 1954. He earned a doctor's degree in 1961 in the field of the English literary criticism. From 1996 to 1968 he was a visiting professor at several universities in the United States. He worked in the English literature department of the Zagreb Faculty of Philosophy from 1954 to 1971 when he transferred to the comparative literature department and he was there a full professor until his retirement in 1996. He wrote several books, essays and studies. The funeral of professor Beker is scheduled for 3 January in the Mirogoj cemetery. (hina) ms