Vladimir Mažuranić


Vladimir Mažuranić was Croatian lawyer, lexicographer and academic.

Life

He was born in Karlovac, as the son of Croatian Ban and writer Ivan Mažuranić, and father of writer Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić. He studied law in Vienna and received a degree at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb in 1866.
He worked in the civil service, in the judicial and law services in Karlovac and Ogulin, serving as a president of the Tabula Banalis. He became a full member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1913, serving as its president in 1918–1921. He was an honorary member of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, and Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv, Ukraine. He was also a member of Brethren of the Croatian Dragon.
His main work was Prinosi za hrvatski pravno-povjestni rječnik, in which he collected and analyzed legal-historical Croatian lexical heritage.
He died 1928 in Zagreb.

Works