ZAGREB, March (Hina) - A former Croatian Ambassador to Great Britain, Member of Parliament, and retired English language lecturer at Zagreb's Faculty of Philosophy, academician Zeljko Bujas, died suddenly in Zagreb on Tuesday at the
age of 71. Bujas was born on February 16, 1928, on the island of Pag. He graduated from the Zagreb Faculty of Philosophy's department of English language and literature. Bujas was a renown Anglicist, who gave a huge contribution in the fields of lexicology and lexicography and the introduction of computer methods into language research in Croatia. He is the author of the first volume of the Croatian-English Encyclopaedic Dictionary, the second volume of which remained unpublished during his lifetime, although the public eagerly awaited it. He selflessly helped in the translation of numerous statements and appeals sent by the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences
ZAGREB, March (Hina) - A former Croatian Ambassador to Great
Britain, Member of Parliament, and retired English language
lecturer at Zagreb's Faculty of Philosophy, academician Zeljko
Bujas, died suddenly in Zagreb on Tuesday at the age of 71.
Bujas was born on February 16, 1928, on the island of Pag. He
graduated from the Zagreb Faculty of Philosophy's department of
English language and literature.
Bujas was a renown Anglicist, who gave a huge contribution in the
fields of lexicology and lexicography and the introduction of
computer methods into language research in Croatia.
He is the author of the first volume of the Croatian-English
Encyclopaedic Dictionary, the second volume of which remained
unpublished during his lifetime, although the public eagerly
awaited it.
He selflessly helped in the translation of numerous statements and
appeals sent by the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences (HAZU)
during the most difficult times of the Homeland War.
Bujas became a HAZU member in 1991.
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