Profesoru Branimiru Brataniću za 70. godišnjicu (Skice za biografiju)
Professor Branimir Bratanić's 70th Anniversary (Biography sketches)

Summary/Abstract: Branimir Bratanić was born in Jastrebarsko near Zagreb, on May 16, 1910. He' attended school in Zagreb. In 1932 he graduated Slavic language and literature on Filozofski fakultet, Unversity of Zagreb and immediately he took up the study of Ethnology (by professor Milovan Gavazzi), and graduated in 1936. After graduation he become an assistant professor at the Department of ethnology; 1951 he become a docent; in 1955 an associate professor and in 1960 a full professor at the Zagreb University. Professor Branimir Bratanić's main scientific preoccupation are plow implements. In 1939 he published a book Orade sprave u Hrväta (Plow implements among the Croatians) (see bibliographic data in the bibliography of professor Branimir Bratanić). This was the of his doctor’s dissertation (1947), and with it he become well-known in the internationals circles (research paper in Stockholm in 1951 and in Wienna in 1952). In 1953, together with a group of leading ethnologists he founded the International Secretariat for Research on the History of Agricultural Implements. In his research of plow implements Bratanić used the cartography Technic and noticed its great value as an aid in historical ethnology. Therefore with all his might he spoke in favor of organizing systematic research on ethnological cartography in Yugoslavia and Europe. In 1953 he took part in founding the Permanent International Commission for the Atlas (S/A), and whose chairman he is since 1968. In 1968, he established the Coordinating Centar for the Ethnological Atlas of Europe a nd the neighboring countries in Zagreb (with the analogic centar in Bonn). In Yugoslavia, in 1958 he established the Yugoslav Ethnology Atlas Commission and in Zagreb, in 1961 the Centar for the Preparation of the E A J, he is the chairman to both from the very beginning. Together with S. Erixon, J. Dias and G. de Rohan-Csemnä he established a non-formal group of European ethnologists, which began their meetings on conferences in 1964 and in 1967 started editing their journal Ethnologia Europaea. In spite of his formal retirement, professor Branimir Bratanić will continue to educate with undiminished eagerness the young ethologists at the Zagreb University, and continue to lead the scientific researches which he established and participate in further ethnological life. We wish him many more years of productive work!

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