Maja Bošković-Stulli (9 November 1922 – 14 August 2012) was a Croatian slavicist and folklorist, literary historian, writer, publisher and an academic, noted for her extensive research of Croatian oral literature.[1][2]
Bošković-Stulli finished elementary and secondary school in Zagreb. She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb and received her PhD in 1961.[6] She took part in many national and international conferences and symposiums, including the Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik. For many years she was chief editor, and afterwards a regular member, of the editorial board for the journal Narodna umjetnost. She worked at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and from 1952 until her retirement in 1979 she worked at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb. From 1963-73 she was the Director of the Institute.[7]
Bošković-Stulli wrote around twenty books and a large number of papers in national and international academic journals. She has received a number of awards for her research work, the annual award in 1975 and the Croatian lifework award in 1990, the Herder Prize in Vienna 1991, and Pitrè - Salomone Marino prize in Palermo 1992. She was a regular member at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.[5]
In 2005 Bošković-Stulli was named among 35 Croatia's most important women in history.[8] Bošković-Stulli died on 14 August 2012 in Zagreb and was buried at the Mirogoj Cemetery.[9][10][11]
Works
Istarske narodne priče, Zagreb 1959
Narodne pripovijetke ("Pet stoljeća hrvatske književnosti"), Zagreb 1963
Narodne epske pjesme, knj. 2 ("Pet stoljeća hrvatske književnosti"), Zagreb 1964
Narodna predaja o vladarevoj tajni, Zagreb 1967
Usmena književnost ("Povijest hrvatske književnosti" 1, pp. 7–353), Zagreb 1978
Usmena književnost nekad i danas, Beograd 1983
Usmeno pjesništvo u obzorju književnosti, Zagreb 1984;
Zakopano zlato. Hrvatske usmene pripovijetke, predaje i legende iz Istre, Pula – Rijeka 1986
U kralja od Norina. Priče, pjesme, zagonetke i poslovice s Neretve, Metković – Opuzen 1987
Pjesme, priče, fantastika, Zagreb 1991;
Žito posred mora. Usmene priče iz Dalmacije, Split 1993
Priče i pričanje: stoljeća usmene hrvatske proze, Zagreb 1997
Usmene pripovijetke i predaje ("Stoljeća hrvatske književnosti"), Zagreb 1997
^Gradska groblja Zagreb: Maja Bošković-Stulli, Mirogoj Ž-119-II-48.(in Croatian)
Bibliography
Snješka Knežević, Aleksander Laslo (2011). Židovski Zagreb. Zagreb: AGM, Židovska općina Zagreb. ISBN978-953-174-393-8.
Romano, Jaša (1980). Jevreji Jugoslavije 1941–1945: žrtve genocida i učesnici narodnooslobodilačkog rata. Beograd: Jevrejski Istorijski Muzej, Saveza jevrejskih opština Jugoslavije.
