Armin Pavić was Croatian

Croats

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 linguist, university professor and rector of the University of Zagreb

University of Zagreb

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He received a degree in Classical philology

Classical philology

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 and Slavic studies in Vienna

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 in 1864. After his service as a high school professor, he was elected as a professor of Croatian language

Croatian language

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 and literature

Croatian literature

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 at the Cathedra for Serbo-Croatian language

Serbo-Croatian language

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 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

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. In 1880 he was appointed as a full professor. He served as a dean of the faculty in to mandates, before being elected as a rector of the university in the academic year 1896/1897. After his rectorship mandate expired, he served as a prorector the following academic year.

As a university professor Pavić strove to keep the coherence of Serbo-Croatian studies, teaching simultaneously linguistic and literary-scientific courses. He became regular member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1874. In the period of 1898-1904 he served as a head of the departments for theology and teaching, and as a parliament

Parliament of Croatia

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 representative.

Pavić published theater and literary critics in many magazines, mostly in Vienac. He studied Palmotić

Junije Palmotic

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 and Gundulić

Ivan Gundulic

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, especially his Osman on which he published three papers.