Valentin Putanec

Valentin Putanec (born October 2, 1917 in Krašić ; † January 6, 2004 in Zagreb ) was a Croatian Romanist , Slavonic scholar and lexicographer.

life and work

Putanec received his doctorate in 1950 from the University of Zagreb under Petar Skok with the thesis Francuska leksikografija na hrvatskom ili srpskom i slovenskom jeziku do 1914 g. see bibliografijom francuske leksikografije na hrvatskom ili srpskom i slovenskom jeziku 1603-1950 (Zagreb 1952). He was the most important employee of the ERHSJ (Etymological Dictionary of Serbo-Croatian) of his teacher, emerged with a successful Franco-Serbo-Croatian dictionary and published numerous works on Serbo-Croatian.

Other works

• (Translator) Roman o Tristanu i Izoldi (from the French text retold by Joseph Bédier ), Zagreb 1951
• Dictionnaire français-croatoserbe / Francusko-hrvatskosrpski rječnik , Zagreb 1957 (960 pages); 10th edition 2011 (1178 pages)
• (Ed.) Un sirventes en ancien français sur le concile de Lyon de 1274, d'après le code zagrébois MR 92, texte et commentaire, in: Rad. Jugoslavenske Akademije znanosti i umjetnosti. Odjel za fi lologiju 11, 1962, pp. 275-378
• (Staff) Petar Skok , Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika , ed. by Mirko Deanović and Ljudevit Jonke, 4 vols., Zagreb 1971-1974 (ERHSJ)
• (with Petar Šimunović) Retrospektivna onomastička bibliografija hrvatsko-srpska do godine 1975 , Zagreb 1987

literature

• Žarko Muljačić, Petar Skok come linguista, in: Lingua et traditio. History of linguistics and recent philologies. Festschrift for Hans Helmut Christmann for his 65th birthday , ed. by Richard Baum et al., Tübingen 1994, pp. 667-685
• Branka Tafra, Samozatajni enciklopedist: Valentin Putanec (Krašić, 2. X. 1917-Zagreb, 4. I. 2004), in: Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje 30, 2004, pp. 305–309

Web links

• Literature by and about Valentin Putanec in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)