Croatia 1995 "The Anniversary of Croatian Science I"

Issue Date	30.10.1995
ID	Michel: 349-351, Scott: 269-271, Stanley Gibbons: 397-399, Yvert et Tellier: 324-326, Category: pP
Design	Hrvoje Sercar, painter and graphic designer, Zagreb Ratko Janjic, academic painter, Zagreb Darko Jakic, academic painter and graphic artist from Zagreb
Stamps in set	3
Value	1 kn - Spiridon Brusina 2,2 kn - Bogoslav Sulek 6,5 kn - THE ANNIVERSARY OF CROATIAN SCIENCE
Emission/Type	commemorative
Places of issue	Zagreb
Size (width x height)	29.82mm x 35.50mm
Layout
Products	FDC x1
Paper	white 115g, gummed
Perforation	14
Print Technique	Multicoloured offset print
Printed by	"Zrinski" - Cakovec
Quantity	350.000 each
Issuing Authority	The Croatian Post and Telecommunications

On October 30^th, Croatian Post and Telecommunications issued the set of three stamps "The Anniversary of Croatian Science".
Spiridion Brusina, born in 1845 in Zadar, studied natural history at Vienna University and soon after his first appointment as head of the Natural sciences Department of the National Museum, he established an independent Zoology section and began to organize and develop the Zoological Museum.
He was among the first to notice the importance of scientific research into the depths of the Adriatic and claimed the sea was a source of life and living species.
He was the founder of maritime biology in Croatia.
He was particularly interested in birds and set up the beginnings of ornithology in Croatia.
He analyzed and classified 600 fossil species.

He has been recognized for popularizing scientific research in Croatia. Natural scientists throughout Europe named in his honor about 50 species.

Bogoslav Sulek was born in 1816 in Slovakia.
He studied in Pozun (today Bratislava) and attended the Evangelist College where he read philosophy, theology, law and natural science.
At the end of 1838 he came to Brod on Sava. He studied Croatian and started correspondence with Ljudevit Gaj. Sulek's interest in philology resulted in writing a dictionary that was published in 1860 as the two-volume "German-Croatian Dictionary".
The Ilyrian Movement kept alive the awareness of the importance of the Croatian language in schools and cultural institutions in Croatia.
Sulek spent ten years working as chief editor of the dictionary. The dictionary of scientific terminology was published in 1875.
The title was "Hrvatsko-Njemacki-Talijanski rjecnik znanstvenog nazivlja".

Faust Vrancic, who was born in 1551 in Šibenik, studied at the Padua University and later became a secretary to the emperor and king Rudolf II at a royal court in Prague, where he came in contact with many scientists and scholars.
He published several works on ethics, theology, history, philology and technology. In 1595 he published his worldwide famous dictionary of "the five most respectable European languages" under the title "Dictionarium Quinque Nobilissimarum Evropae Linguarum, Latinae, Italicae, Germanicae, Dalmatinae, Ungaricae".
All Croatian entries are in Vranicic's Chakavian dialect with some elements of the Slokavian dialect. The "Dictionarium" is the first comprehensive dictionary of the Croatian and Hungarian languages.

Products and associated philatelic items

FDC	First-Day-of-Issue Postmark	Special Cover

References

Technical details and short description of the stamps:
Croatian Post (the article doesn't available anymore), Colnect.

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Dr. Peter Voice, PhD Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Western Michigan University, USA, for review of a draft of this article.