KRUNOSLAV BABIĆ, HRVATSKI ZOOLOG, SVEUČILIŠNI PROFESOR ZOOLOGIJE I MUZEALAC (Senj, 1875.-Opatija, 1953.)
KRUNOSLAV BABIĆ, THE CROATIAN ZOOLOGIST, UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR AND MUSEUM WORKER

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with life and work of the Croatian zoologist and museum worker Krunoslav Babić (Senj, 1875 - Opatija, 1953). There are particulars about his life with special emphasis on his work as a University professor (1916-1942) and on his scientific research, which he conducted as a custodian (1900-1927) and later for a quite long time as a director (1927-1945) of the Croatian National Zoological Museum at Zagreb. The author has selected some twenty of Babić's papers dealing with the Adriatic Sea dwelling invertebrates, then with Croatian fauna of the Adriatic hydroids and sponges, planktonic sea medusae and ctenophores, polychaetes and starfish as well as some freshwater sponges and crustaceans - branchiopods and decapods. The author refers further to as much of his expert and popular articles, then the two popular-scientific works on life conditions in the Adriatic Sea, on its animals and some rare visitors (i.e. the Leatherback Turtle /Dermochelys coriacea/ and the Basing Shark.). Then follows the conclusion on the importance of Babić's longlasting pedagogical activities at the University of Zagreb (1916-1942) and at the Pedagogical Academy, then on his contribution to the knowledge about Croatian Fauna of some invertebrates. The importance of the secondary-school textbooks for zoolog, that he wrote in co-authorship with Nikola Fink, is likewise emphasized here. They had many re-editions and are considered to be the first originally written textbooks for zoology in Croatian language.

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