Stjepan Babić

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Stjepan Babić (29 November 1925 – 27 August 2021) was a Croatian linguist and academic.

Stjepan Babić
Born	(1925-11-29)29 November 1925 Oriovac, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes
Died	27 August 2021(2021-08-27) (aged 95) Zagreb, Croatia
Occupation	Linguist
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Zagreb

Biography

Babić was born in the small town of Oriovac in Brod-Posavina County, even though his biological parents are from Hrvatsko Zagorje. He attended primary school in Oriovac, and gymnasium in Slavonski Brod, Osijek and finally in Zagreb.^[1] In 1948, he was employed by Industrogradnja, but soon thereafter the political winds threw him to Petrinjska prison. After Petrinjska, he enrolled to Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb in 1949, graduating in 1955 with a degree in Croatian, Russian and German.^[1] Afterwards, he remained working as an assistant at the Faculty of Philosophy, defending his PhD in 1962 and receiving full professorship in 1975.^[1] He was the vice-president of Matica hrvatska from 1989 to 1992, and representative in the Županijski Dom ('Chamber of the Counties') from 1993 to 1997.^[1] He retired as professor in 1991.^[1] Babić died in Zagreb on 27 August 2021, at the age of 95.^[2]

Selected works

Babić was one of the most prolific Croatian linguists, with over one thousand published works (books, articles, etc.).^[1] His work deals predominantly with modern Croatian standard language, word formation in particular.^[1] In his papers published during the 1960s, Babić advocated a linguistic unification of Serbs and Croats.^{[3][4][5][6][7]} Since the 1990s, Babić has been one of the leading proponents of language purism in Croatia.^[6][8] His puristic approach has been criticised by Ivo Pranjković^[9] and especially^[10] by Snježana Kordić.^{[11][12][13][14][15]} Babić's tendency to use the topic of language to spread nationalist ideology was evident in his articles published in the journal Jezik, in which Babić was editor-in-chief.^[16]

This listing includes only books:

• "Hrvatski pravopis" (co-authored with Božidar Finka and Milan Moguš) 1. edition was outlawed in 1971 (reprints: London 1972, Zagreb 1990.), 2 1994, 3 1995, 4 1996, 5 2000, 6 2002, 7 2003
• "Pregled gramatike hrvatskoga književnog jezika" (co-authored with Stjepko Težak) 1973 (later editions are called "Gramatika hrvatskoga jezika", such as that of 1992. (7. ed.), 2000. (12. ed.): "Gramatika hrvatskoga jezika : priručnik za osnovno jezično obrazovanje")
• "Tvorba riječi u hrvatskom književnom jeziku" 1 (an outline for the grammar) 1986, 2 1991, 3 2002
• "Opća i slavenska terminološka problematika" 1987
• "Hrvatska jezikoslovna čitanka" 1990
• "Hrvatski jezik u političkom vrtlogu" 1990
• "Povijesni pregled, glasovi i oblici hrvatskoga književnog jezika" 1991
• "Tisućljetni jezik naš hrvatski" 1991
• "Hrvatski jučer i danas" 1995
• "Hrvatski politički vicevi" 1995
• "Sročnost u hrvatskome književnome jeziku" 1998
• "Crvena magla", novel 2000
• "Vedre priče", short stories 2000
• "Hrvatska jezikoslovna prenja" 2001^[11]
• "Prijedlog za ukidanje hrvatskog jezika" 2003
• "Hrvanja hrvatskoga : hrvatski u koštacu sa srpskim i u klinču s engleskim" 2004^[14]
• "Hrvatski školski pravopis" (co-authored with Sanda Ham and Milan Moguš) 2005
• "Temelji Hrvatskomu pravopisu" 2005
• "Razmišljanja o Bogu i patnji" 2005
• "Glasovi i oblici hrvatskoga književnoga jezika" 2007
• "Rječnik kratica" (co-authored with Milena Žic-Fuchs) 2007

References

1. http://info.hazu.hr/stjepan_babic_biografija (in Croatian)
2. "Umro je Stjepan Babić, jedan od naših najznačajnijih jezikoslovaca i suautor Hrvatskog pravopisa" (in Croatian). Jutarnji list. 27 August 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
3. Babić, Stjepan (1964). "Uklanjanje hrvatsko-srpskih jezičnih razlika" [Elimination of language differences between Croats and Serbs]. Jezik (in Serbo-Croatian). 11 (3): 71–72, 74. ISSN 0021-6925.
4. Babić, Stjepan (1965). "Vukov i naš današnji književni jezik" [Vuk’s language and our today’s language]. Jezik (in Serbo-Croatian). 13 (1): 24–25. ISSN 0021-6925.
5. Babić, Stjepan (6 March 1966). "Zvučnik, glasnogovornik i varijante" [Vowel, spokesman and variants]. Vjesnik (in Serbo-Croatian): 6. ISSN 0350-3305.
6. Gröschel, Bernhard (2009). Das Serbokroatische zwischen Linguistik und Politik: mit einer Bibliographie zum postjugoslavischen Sprachenstreit [Serbo-Croatian Between Linguistics and Politics: With a Bibliography of the Post-Yugoslav Language Dispute]. Lincom Studies in Slavic Linguistics ; vol 34 (in German). Munich: Lincom Europa. pp. 75, 371. ISBN 978-3-929075-79-3. LCCN 2009473660. OCLC 428012015. OL 15295665W.
7. Visković, Velimir (2022). "Slučaj Kordić" [The Kordić case]. O drugima, o sebi: autobiografsko-memoarski zapisi [About others, about myself: autobiographical-memoir records]. Biblioteka Posebna izdanja (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb: Naklada Ljevak. pp. 207–208. ISBN 978-953-355-596-6. LCCN 2022489279. OCLC 1356400109. COBISS 129538051. Archived from the original on 4 November 2024. Retrieved 21 November 2024. p. 207: Međutim, nakon nekog vremena svima je bilo očito da je u polemikama Kordić nadmoćna; osobito se to pokazalo u polemici sa Stjepanom Babićem, kojemu je pronašla njegove stare, unitarističke tekstove o jeziku i ismijala ga. [However, after a while it became obvious to everyone that Kordić was superior in polemics; this was especially evident in the polemic with Stjepan Babić, where she found his old, unitarian texts on language and ridiculed him.]
8. Czerwiński, Maciej (2005). Język – ideologia – naród: polityka językowa w Chorwacji a język mediów [Language – ideology – nation: Language policy in Croatia and the language of media] (in Polish). Kraków: Scriptum. p. 131. ISBN 8360163049. OCLC 64586273.
9. Pranjković, Ivo (1997). Jezikoslovna sporenja [Linguistic polemics]. Suvremenici (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb: Konzor. pp. 34–35, 59–92. ISBN 9536317354. OCLC 37850381.
10. Mandić, Igor (10 October 2015). "Non serviam Igora Mandića: Samo da ne bude ustaška!" [Non serviam by Igor Mandić: Just make sure it's not of the Ustasha origin!] (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb: Lupiga. ISSN 1849-3831. Archived from the original on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
11. Kordić, Snježana (2003). "Vlast nad jezikom: recenzija knjige Stjepana Babića, Hrvatska jezikoslovna prenja" [Ownership of language: Review of Stjepan Babić’s Croatian linguistic polemics] (PDF). Književna republika (in Serbo-Croatian). 1 (5–6): 161–173. ISSN 1334-1057. SSRN 3433065. CROSBI 430278. ZDB-ID 2122129-7. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 September 2012. Retrieved 12 March 2019. (CROLIB).
12. Kordić, Snježana (2003). "Mitovi jezičnih ideologa (odgovor Stjepanu Babiću)" [Myths used by language ideologists (response to Stjepan Babić)] (PDF). Književna republika (in Serbo-Croatian). 1 (11–12): 176–200. ISSN 1334-1057. SSRN 3433049. CROSBI 430251. CEEOL 149174767. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 June 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2013. (CROLIB).
13. Kordić, Snježana (2004). "Lice purizma (odgovor Stjepanu Babiću)" [Purism's face (response to Stjepan Babić)] (PDF). Književna republika (in Serbo-Croatian). 2 (5–6): 217–226. ISSN 1334-1057. S2CID 149174767. SSRN 3433038. CROSBI 430122. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 June 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2022. (CROLIB).
14. Kordić, Snježana (2006). "Filologija laži: recenzija knjige Stjepana Babića, Hrvanja hrvatskoga" [The philology of lies: Review of Stjepan Babić’s Croatian Language Wrestling] (PDF). Književna republika (in Serbo-Croatian). 4 (9–10): 154–181. ISSN 1334-1057. S2CID 193832195. SSRN 3457082. CROSBI 429742. CEEOL 111862. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 May 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2021. (NSK).
15. Kordić, Snježana (2010). Jezik i nacionalizam [Language and Nationalism] (PDF). Rotulus Universitas (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb: Durieux. pp. 18, 41–42, 141, 161, 302–320. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3467646. ISBN 978-953-188-311-5. LCCN 2011520778. OCLC 729837512. OL 15270636W. S2CID 220918333. CROSBI 475567. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 June 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
16. Zanelli, Aldo (2018). Eine Analyse der Metaphern in der kroatischen Linguistikfachzeitschrift Jezik von 1991 bis 1997 [Analysis of Metaphors in Croatian Linguistic Journal Language from 1991 to 1997]. Studien zur Slavistik ; 41 (in German). Hamburg: Dr. Kovač. pp. 67–70, 39–54. ISBN 978-3-8300-9773-0. OCLC 1023608613. (NSK). (FFZG).