PROFESOR АNТЕ ROMAC, ROMANISTA I PEDAGOG
PROFESSOR ANTE ROMAC, ROMANIST AND EDUCATOR

Summary/Abstract: This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Professor Ante Romac, a great scholar of Roman Law, legal historian and educator. Professor Romac enriched Romanistics with major works which stand to this day as indispensable literature in the study and teaching of law. He was esteemed as a many-sided intellectual educated in the humanities, manifested through his academic and creative work: a versatile knowledge of legal history, and also that of almost all current legal systems; an excellent authority on the sources of Roman law, with a striking aptitude for translating ancient legal sources; a writer on various select topics of Roman law and legal history; a broad knowledge of non-legal classical and also of mediaeval literature and an outstanding Latinist. In some of his works, he had no predecessor. Professor Romac was a well-known enthusiast in his pursuit of science, and had been a relentless collector of Latin legal phrases – for decades before he selected and published them in some of his books. As an educator, professor Romac sought to reconcile the gap between secondary education, which was providing only a modest proficiency in Latin, and the requirements imposed by the subject content of Roman law in graduate legal education. Students, his collaborators and colleagues remember professor Romac for his composure, systematic nature, a high degree of sophistication, without flashy gimmicks, and, as an examiner, they remember him for maintaining objective criteria and a level-headed approach.

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