Zdravka Matišić
Born16 May 1944
Travnik
NationalityCroatian
Known forLiterary scholarship
Academic background
Alma materZagreb University
Academic work
Notable worksElements of Hindi Grammar (1996) (Croatian: Elementi hindske gramatike), the only manual for Hindi in Croatian

Zdravka Matišić (b. 16 June 1944, Travnik) is a Croatian Indologist and Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies and Hungarian Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy at Zagreb University.[1]

She is known for her work in both Sanskrit and modern Indian literature, her translations from Sanskrit, including a 1980 translation of Pañcatantra, and her linguistic study of the Hindi language.[1]

In 1996, she authored Elements of Hindi Grammar, the only manual for Hindi in Croatian.[1]

She is also active in historical research, including on the contributions of Croatian missionaries in India,[1] and authored the 2007 work Joy, Fear, Dedication: Contributions to the biography of Ivan Filip Vesdin Paulin and Sancto Bartholomaeo (Croatian: Radost, strah, predanost: Prilozi za biografiju Ivana Filipa Vesdina Paulina a Sancto Bartholomaeo).[2]

She co-authored India and Tibet by Nikola Ratkay (2002) (Croatian: Indije i Tibet Nikole Ratkaja) with Mate Križman.[3]

Bibliography

Author

  • Matišić, Zdravka (1996). Elements of Hindi Grammar [Elementi hindske gramatike] (in Croatian). Ibis grafika. ISBN 9789539657701.
  • Matišić, Zdravka (1999). "An intertextual reading of Rushdie's "Haroun and the Sea of Stories"". Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia. Faculty of Literature of the University of Zagreb. 44 (1999): 172–196.
  • Matišić, Zdravka (2007). Joy, Fear, Dedication: Contributions to the biography of Ivan Filip Vesdin Paulin and Sancto Bartholomaeo [Radost, strah, predanost: Prilozi za biografiju Ivana Filipa Vesdina Paulina a Sancto Bartholomaeo] (in Croatian). {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

Co-author

  • Križman, Mate; Matišić, Zdravka (2002). India and Tibet by Nikola Ratkay [Indije i Tibet Nikole Ratkaja] (in Croatian). Bibliotheca Orientalica. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Matišić, Zdravka". Hrvatska enciklopedija (Croatian Encyclopedia). Miroslav Krleža Lexicographic Institute. 2021. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  2. ↑ "Radost, strah, predanost".
  3. ↑ "Indije i Tibet Nikole Ratkaja".
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