Josip Bratulić (born 2 February 1939) is a Croatian philologist, historian of literature and culture, and academic.
He was born in Sveti Petar u Šumi. He attended a gymnasium in Pazin, graduating in Croatian studies and comparative literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. At the same university he received his master's degree and a doctorate, with a thesis on Croatian Glagolism. He worked as an assistant and research associate at the Old Church Slavonic Institute in Zagreb, and since 1977 he has been teaching a course on Old Croatian literature at the Zagreb Faculty of Philosophy. He served as a dean in the period 1991-1993, and since 2000 he has been a regular member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Bratulić participated in the preparation of a large number of cultural and scientific events, such as the exhibition Pisana riječ u Hrvatskoj ("The Written Word in Croatia"), and the development of the ethnopark Glagolitic Alley Roč–Hum together with Želimir Janeš. In the period 1996-2002 he served as the president of Matica hrvatska. His scientific interest is Croatian and Slavic Middle Ages, Croatian Glagolitism, Croatian pre-revival literature and the Croatian cultural peculiarities on the Istrian territory.
Works Among many authored books, contributions, transliterations, translations, editing: Apokrif o prekrasnom Josipu u hrvatskoj književnosti (1972) Istarski razvod (1978) Prva hrvatskoglagoljska početnica 1527. (1983) Aleja glagoljaša Roč–Hum (1983, 1994) Žitja Konstantina i Metodija i druga vrela (1985) Prezimena i naselja u Istri I-III (1985-1986, with Petar Šimunović) Istarske književne teme (1987) Vinodolski zakon (1988) Izazov zavičaja (1990) Sjaj baštine (1990) Mrvice sa zagrebačkog stola (1994) Leksikon hrvatske glagoljice (1995) Hrvatska propovijed (1996) Istra: zavičaj starina i ljepota (2000) Pula: oduvijek (2001)
Hrvatska pisana kultura I-III (2005-2008, with Stjepan Damjanović) Hrvatski ex libris (2007) Hrvatske autorske čestitke (2011) Slavonske književnopovijesne teme (2013) Pjesmarica Ane Katarine Zrinski (2014) Priče o lijepim stvarima ili Blagdan skromnih darova (2015) Hrvatske glagoljične i ćirilične isprave iz zbirke Stjepana Ivšića 1100. – 1527.: Acta Croatica (2017) Aleja glagoljaša: stoljeća hrvatske glagoljice (2019) Hrvatska glagoljica: Postanak, razvitak, značenje (2022)
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