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Matija Grbić
German philologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Matthias Garbitius or Matija Grbić[1][2][3][4] (also Matthias Illyricus;[5] around 1505 – 1559) was a German humanist, classical philologist and translator. Born in Istria, he emigrated to Nuremberg. Between 1545 and 1557 he was the dean of the philosophical faculty at the University of Tübingen.[5] He is the first known Protestant from the Balkans.[5]
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