How to Pronounce Branko Despot
#20
Most Popular
Boost
Jul 06, 1942 81 years old
Croatian philosopher
CancerBranko Despot - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
Branko Despot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Family, Facts, Age, Net Worth, Biography and More in FamedBorn.com
About Branko Despot
- Branko Despot (born July 6, 1942, Zagreb) is Croatian philosopher.He is the son of Miroslava Despot, a prominent economic and cultural historian.
- After finishing gymnasium in Zagreb in 1961, he graduated in philosophy and Ancient Greek in 1965 at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, where he also received his PhD in 1975 with a thesis on the philosophy of Vladimir Dvornikovic.
- He worked as a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy since 1968, and since 1971 at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, at first as an assistant, as a docent (1979–84) and then as a professor at the Chair of History of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy.
- He is a member of the Croatian Writers' Association and PEN International.His research covers history of philosophy, Ancient Greek philosophy, German classical and contemporary philosophy as well as Croatian contemporary thought.He published treatises and papers in journals and periodicals such as Vidici (1968), Filosofija (1969–70), Praxis (1969–71), Problemi (1969–90), Kamov (1970), Kolo (1970), Pitanja (1971), Dijalog (1977), Polja (1978), Gordogan (1979, 1982, 1983, 1985), Filozofska istraživanja (1984, 1986, 1988), Godišnjak za povijest filozofije (1984, 1990), Synthesis philosophica (1986) and others.He published two monographs that deal with the history of philosophy of Ðuro Arnold and Vladimir Dvornikovic.
- He translated from German works such as Nicolai Hartmann's Osnovne crte jedne metafizike spoznaje (Zagreb, 1976), Eugen Fink's Nietzscheova filozofija (Zagreb 1981) and Adam Schaff's Komunisticki pokret na raspucu (Zagreb 1985).He is a regular member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2010.
