Antun Vujić

Antun Vujić
Minister of Culture
In office
27 January 2000 – 23 December 2003
Prime Minister Ivica Račan
Preceded by Božo Biškupić
Succeeded by Božo Biškupić
Personal details
Born 14 July 1945
Dubrovnik, FS Croatia
Nationality Croatian
Political party Social Democratic Party
Alma mater University of Zagreb
(Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences)

Antun Vujić (born in Dubrovnik, July 14, 1945[1]) is a Croatian politician, philosopher, political analyst and lexicographer, currently member of Croatian Parliament and formerly Minister of Culture in the Croatian Government (from January 2000 to December 2003 under Prime Minister Ivica Račan).

Overview

Vujić graduated from the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Philosophy (majored in philosophy and sociology), and in 1985 he earned a Ph.D. degree in philosophy of science. In 1967 he founded Omladinski tjednik, the first Croatian underground magazine. In the post-Croatian Spring purges in 1972 Vujić was branded a "nationalist, liberal and anarcho-syndicalist" and lost his employment, but was recruited by Miroslav Krleža two years later to work in the Yugoslav Lexicographical Institute.[1]

In 1989 he was one of the founding members of the centre-left Social Democrats of Croatia party (SDH), and ran at the 1992 presidential elections, coming in eighth with just 0.70 percent of the vote. In 1994 SDH merged with the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP), led by Ivica Račan, and Vujić soon became one of SDP's more prominent members.[1] In 1995 he was elected to Croatian Parliament on SDP's ticket, and was later appointed Minister of Culture when SDP won the 2000 parliamentary elections.[1] After his term ended in December 2003, he was elected to the parliament at the 2003 and 2007 elections.[1]

Vujić contributes articles of political analysis to various magazines, he wrote encyclopedic articles and papers covering philosophy and liberal arts, and he contributed to comprehensive lexicons and encyclopedias. He was the main editor of the first general Croatian encyclopaedia, for which he was awarded the State Award for Science in 1998. From 2005 to 2009 he was the editor-in-chief of Proleksis Encyclopedia. Since 2012, he is the director of the Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography.[1] Additionally, he is the director of the social-democratic political academy Novo društvo, and a member of the advisory board of the left-wing magazine Novi Plamen.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Antun Vujić" (in Croatian). Večernji list. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
  2. ↑ "O Novom Plamenu (About Novi Plamen)". Novi Plamen. Archived from the original on 24 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-28.

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