List of Croatian philosophers
This is a list of notable philosophers who either spent many productive years of their lives in Croatia or the country's citizens working abroad, in alphabetical order:
A
[edit]- Đuro Arnold (1853–1941), philosopher, writer and pedagogue
B
[edit]- Julije Bajamonti (1744–1800), polymath, physician, medical historian, encyclopedist, translator, composer and music theoretician
- Karlo Balić (1899–1977), theologian, writer and philosopher
- Pavo Barišić (born 1959), philosophical historian and bioethicist
- Antun Bauer (1856–1937), theologian, philosopher and writer
- Ruđer Josip Bošković (1711–1787)[1][2], polymath, physicist, astronomer, mathematician, theologian, diplomat and poet
- Branko Bošnjak (1923–1996), sociologist, comparatist, philosopher, writer and philosophical historian
C
[edit]- Nadežda Čačinovič (born 1947), philosopher, sociologist and comparatist
D
[edit]- Blaženka Despot (1930–2001), philosopher and sociologist
- Branko Despot (born 1942), philosopher and philosophical historian
- Markantun de Dominis (1560–1624), polymath, ecclesiastic, physicist, mathematician and philosopher
- Vladimir Dvorniković (1888–1956), philosopher and ethno-psychologist
- Rajmund Džamanjić (1587–1647), theologian, philosopher and linguist
E
[edit]- Bruna Esih (born 1975), philosopher, historian and politician
F
[edit]- Heda Festini (born 1928), philosopher and philosophical historian
- Ljiljana Filipović (born 1951), philosopher and writer
- Predrag Finci (born 1946), philosopher and essayist
- Ivan Focht (1927–1992), philosopher, mycologist and critic
- Matija Frkić (1583–1669), theologian and philosopher
G
[edit]- Vlado Gotovac (1930–2000), essayist, poet, philosopher and politician
- Stjepan Gradić (1613–1683), polymath, astronomer, theologian, translator, poet and diplomat
- Danko Grlić (1923–1984), marxist theorist and humanist
- Nikola Vitov Gučetić (1596–1647), polymath, philosopher, physicist, science writer and politician
H
[edit]- Anđelko Habazin (1924–1978), philosopher of science and historian
- Herman Dalmatin (c. 1100 – c. 1160), philosopher, astronomer, astrologer, mathematician and translator
- Srećko Horvat (born 1983), marxist theorist and political philosopher
I
[edit]- Rada Iveković (born 1945), philosopher, indologist, feminist and writer
J
[edit]- Mislav Ježić (born 1952), philosopher, philologist and indologist
K
[edit]- Milan Kangrga (1923–2008), social philosopher and marxist theorist
- Daniel Kolak (born 1955), philosopher of science and religion
- Mario Kopić (born 1965) philosopher, translator and writer
- Antun Kržan (1835–1888), philosopher and theologian
- Rajmund Kupareo (1914–1996), theological writer, philosopher, translator, composer and poet
- Ivan Kuvačić (1923–2014), marxist and sociologist
L
[edit]- Željko Loparić (born 1939), philosopher and historian of philosophy
M
[edit]- Antun Mahnić (1850–1920), theologian and philosopher
- Julije Makanec (1904–1945), politician, philosopher and writer
- Ljubomir Maraković (1887–1959), literary historian, critic, writer and Catholic philosopher
- Franjo Marković (1845–1914), philosopher and writer
- Ignac Josip Dominik Martinović (1755–1795), theologian, philosopher, physicist and politician
P
[edit]- Danilo Pejović (1928–2007), philosopher and editor
- Franjo Petriš (1529–1597), polymath, philosopher, scientist, writer and humanist
- Gajo Petrović (1927–1993), marxist theorist, humanist and editor
- Žarko Puhovski (born 1946), philosopher and political scientist
R
[edit]- Bonaventura Radonić (1888–1945), theologian and philosopher
- Nino Raspudić (born 1975), philosopher, writer and political analyst
S
[edit]- Neven Sesardić (born 1949), philosopher and geneticist
- Viktor Sonnenfeld (1902–1969), translator and philosopher
- Josip Stadler (1843–1918), theologian, philosopher and writer
- Ivan Supek (1915–2007), physicist, philosopher, writer, playwright, peace activist and humanist
- Vanja Sutlić (1925–1989), philosopher, essayist and philosophical historian
- Goran Švob (1925–1989), logician, philosopher and author
V
[edit]- Matija Vlačić – Ilirik (1520–1575), theologian, historian, writer and philosopher
- Faust Vrančić (1551–1617), polymath, inventor, engineer, humanist, linguist and latinist
- Predrag Vranicki (1922–2002), Marxist humanist and philosopher
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, (Second Edition). Cambridge University Press; 1999. ISBN 0-521-63722-8
External links
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- Marin Gundulić – Croatian jesuit and scientist
- Stipe Kutleša – director of the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb (2002–2006)
- Nenad Miščević – university professor in Croatia, Slovenia and Hungary
- Augustin Nalješković – one of the representatives of traditional scholastic renaissance philosophy
- Benedikt Rogačić – Jesuit from Dubrovnik who lived in Rome
- Srđan Vrcan – university professor in Rome, Pecs, Bergen, Moscow, Berlin, Paris etc.
- Franjo Zenko – director of the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb (1980–1985)