10 Facts About Pero Budmani

Pero Budmani was a Croatian Serb writer, linguist, grammarian, and philologist from Dubrovnik and a renowned polyglot.

Pero Budmani completed gymnasium in Dubrovnik and then after 1853 moved to Vienna to study medicine, then switched to law, but did not complete his studies, and would travel to his uncle's estate near Ancona where he was exposed to the ideas of the Risorgimento.

Pero Budmani became one of the prominent members of the Serb-Catholic movement in Dubrovnik.

Pero Budmani wrote a seminal book in Italian called Grammatica della lingua serbo-croata that described the Serbo-Croatian grammar, published in Vienna in 1867.

Pero Budmani was elected to the Imperial Council twice, but renounced the position in Vienna in 1873.

In 1880, Pero Budmani was among the esteemed intellectuals that the Municipal Council of Dubrovnik had oversee the construction of a monument dedicated to Ivan Gundulic, at the time planned for 1888.

In 1883, Pero Budmani moved to Zagreb and became the editor of the Rjecnik of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Pero Budmani left the Gundulic monument oversight committee to focus on his work for the Academy's Dictionary before the end of the decade.

Pero Budmani remained the editor of the Dictionary until 1907.

Pero Budmani spoke most of the European languages, including Old Slavonic, Greek, Latin, and several Asiatic languages.