Franjo Maixner was a Croatian

Croats

Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...

 university professor and rector of the University of Zagreb

University of Zagreb

The University of Zagreb is the biggest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of Southeastern Europe...

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He graduated philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

 at the Charles University in Prague

Charles University in Prague

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. In 1886 he founded a Seminar for Classical Philology

Classical philology

Classical philology is the study of ancient Greek and classical Latin. Classical philology has been defined as "the careful study of the literary and philosophical texts of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds." Greek and Latin literature and civilization have traditionally been considered...

 (today Department for Classical Philology) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

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, holding a position of the first professor. In the academic year 1878/1879 he served as a rector of the University of Zagreb

University of Zagreb

The University of Zagreb is the biggest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of Southeastern Europe...

, and after his rectorship mandate expired, as a prorector of the Royal University of Franz Joseph

Franz Joseph I of Austria

Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I was Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, King of Croatia, Apostolic King of Hungary, King of Galicia and Lodomeria and Grand Duke of Cracow from 1848 until his death in 1916.In the December of 1848, Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria abdicated the throne as part of...

 in Zagreb. Up until 1888 he alone conducted all the teaching activity at the newly-established department, including the courses on Latin language and literature

Latin literature

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. He became full member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1882.

Maixner wrote works on grammar

Grammar

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, Classical literature and archeology. Of the classical authors, he chiefly studied Cicero

Cicero

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. He also studied Croatian latinistic literature

Croatian latinistic literature

Croatian Latinism or Croatian Latin literature is a term that refers to the literary works written in the Latin language, which evolved on present-day Croatia since the 9th century. Since that time, both public and private documents have been written in a local variant of medieval Latin...

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