astronomy

Petar Šimunović

Petar Šimunović is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Petar Šimunović rather than just read about it. In short: Petar Šimunović (19 February 1933 – 5 August 2014) was a Croatian linguist, onomastician, dialectologist, lexicographer, and academic member of HAZU. He was considered as the most prominent Croatian onomastician (since the second half of the 20th century), and contributed also in the field of dialectology (particularly about Chakavian dialect).

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Petar Šimunović (19 February 1933 – 5 August 2014) was a Croatian linguist, onomastician, dialectologist, lexicographer, and academic member of HAZU. He was considered as the most prominent Croatian onomastician (since the second half of the 20th century), and contributed also in the field of dialectology (particularly about Chakavian dialect).

Biography He was born on 19 February 1933 in the village Dračevica on the island of Brač. He received a degree in Yugoslav languages and Romance studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb in 1958 with thesis Sumartinska onomastika, and doctoral thesis Toponimija otoka Brača in 1970. Since 1964 he started to work at the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics of JAZU (later HAZU), in the department of onomastics. He was elected scientific advisor in 1979 and retired in 2003. As the recipient of the Humboldt Foundation scholarship he worked at the Slavic Department of the University of Cologne between 1972 and 1974 under Reinhold Olesch mentorship, and lectured between 1994 and 1998. In his honor, the University of Cologne organized in 1998 international scientific conference on Slavic onomastics, and was a member of various international Slavic organizations. He was a regular member of HAZU since 1991, and member of Presidency between 2011 and 2014. He lectured onomastics at the postgraduate study of Croatian studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb and at the postgraduate study of linguistics at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zadar. Besides doing research in the field of onomastics, also did field research in dialectology, particularly Chakavian, for the Slavic Linguistic Atlas (OLA) and Croatian Dialect Atlas (HDA). During his scientific career he received several awards, including award of the Municipality of Brač (1983), State award "Božidar Adžija" (1984), Order of Danica Hrvatska "Ruđer Bošković" (1998), State Lifetime Achievement award (2000), State award in the field of humanistic sciences (2009). Šimunović died on 5 August 2014 in Split. In 2020, was published monography U početku bijaše ime, including works from international scientific conference "Tragovima onomastičkih istraživanja Petra Šimunovića" held in July 2019.

Selected works Šimunović as an author and co-author published over 500 scientific, scientific popular and professional articles, and 30 books. He was also main editor of academic journal Folia onomastica Croatica and member of editorial board of journal Rasprave. Collaborated in the writing of Grundsystem und Terminologie der slavischen Onomastik (1983), Słowiańska onomastyka – encyklopedia (2002).

Toponimija otoka Brača (1972) Brač - vodič po otoku (1972–1997) Leksik prezimena Socijalističke Republike Hrvatske (1976) Čakavisch-deutsches Lexikon I-III (1979–1983) Naša prezimena – porijeklo, značenje, rasprostranjenost (1985) Prezimena i naselja u Istri I-III (1985–1986) Istočnojadranska toponimija (1986) Hrvatska prezimena – porijeklo, značenje, rasprostranjenost (1995) Bračka toponimija (2004) Toponimija hrvatskoga jadranskog prostora (2005) Rječnik bračkih čakavskih govora (2006) Hrvatski prezimenik I-III (2008) Hrvatska u prezimenima (2008) Uvod u hrvatsko imenoslovlje (2009) Rječnik bračkih čakavskih govora (2009) Čakavska čitanka (2011)

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Example 1 — a first encounter with Petar Šimunović

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Petar Šimunović claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Petar Šimunović before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Petar Šimunović ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Petar Šimunović

In research: Petar Šimunović appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Petar Šimunović in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Petar Šimunović is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1933 births, 2014 deaths, 20th-century Croatian linguists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Petar Šimunović outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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