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Juan Vucetich. Ivan Vučetić

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JUAN VUCETICH. IVAN VUČETIĆ (JULY 20, 1858 – JANUARY 25, 1925) WAS A CROATIAN-BORN ARGENTINE ANTHROPOLOGIST AND POLICE OFFICIAL WHO PIONEERED THE USE OF FINGERPRINTING. BIOGRAPHY VUCETICH WAS BORN AS IVAN VUČETIĆ AT HVAR IN DALMATIA (THEN HABSBURG MONARCHY, NOW CROATIA). IN 1882, HE EMIGRATED TO ARGENTINA.

Juan Vucetich.

Ivan Vučetić

(July 20, 1858 – January 25, 1925)
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Ivo Andric - Croatian Nobel prize winners for literature

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Ivo Andric - Croatian Nobel prize winners for literature

CROATIAN NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA HAS TWO CROATS AS NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS: * IVO ANDRIC FOR LITERATURE,

Ivo Andrić

Born     October 9, 1892(1892-10-09) Dolac (village near Travnik), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died     March 13, 1975 (aged 82) Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia (now Serbia)
Occupation     Novelist, short story writer
Nationality     Croatian [1]
Notable award(s)     Nobel Prize in Literature (1961)

Ivo Andrić (October 9, 1892 – March 13, 1975) was a Croatian novelist[1], short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature[3]. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under the Ottoman Empire. His native house in Travnik has been transformed into a Museum, and his Belgrade flat on Andrićev Venac host the Museum of Ivo Andrić, and Ivo Andrić Foundation.

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Vladimir Prelog - Croatian Nobel prize winners for chemistry

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Vladimir Prelog - Croatian Nobel prize winners for chemistry

CROATIAN NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA HAS TWO CROATS AS NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS: * VLADIMIR PRELOG FOR CHEMISTRY. Vladimir Prelog, Nobel prize laureate for chemistry in 1975.
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Father Leo Petrović

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FATHER LEO PETROVIĆ WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 28TH 1883, HIS FATHER NAMED MARIJAN AND MOTHER ANĐA, MAIDEN NAME JURČIĆ, CHRISTENED ON MARCH 6TH 1883 IN KLOBUK. HE WENT TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN VELJACI (1892.-1895.), HIGH SCHOOL IN ŠIROKI BRIJEG (1896.-1900.), SEMINARY IN MOSTAR (1901.-1904.) AND IN FRIBOURG, SWITZERLAND (1904.-1907.) HE ENTERED THE FRANCISCAN ORDER IN HUMAC ON OCTOBER 4TH 1900. SIMPLY VOWED ON OCTOBER 4TH 1901., AND FORMALLY ON OCTOBER 19TH 1904. HE WAS ORDAINED FOR A PRIEST IN FRIBOURG ON JULY 30TH 1905. HE WAS A PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY IN MOSTAR (1907.-1917.), A VICAR IN KLOBUK (1917.-1919.), A FRANCISCAN ABBOT AND VICAR IN MOSTAR (1919.-1925.), A SEMINARY PROFESSOR IN MOSTAR (1925.-1926.), A NOTARY OF THE BISHOP’S ORDINARIES IN MOSTAR (1926.-1934.), A GENERAL VICAR OF THE MOSTAR - DUVNO AND TREBINJE - MRKANJ BISHOPRIC (1934.- 1942.), A BISHOPRIC’S CONSULTANT (1937.-1943.), AND ON JULY 3RD 1943 WAS CHOSEN FOR THE PROVINCIAL OF HERZEGOVINAN FRANCISCANS. THE PARTISANS ARRESTED HIM AND SIX OF HIS FRANCISCAN BROTHERS ON FEBRUARY 14TH 1945. IN THE MONASTERY OF SAINT PETER AND PAUL IN MOSTAR, TOOK THEM AWAY, TORTURED AND KILLED THEM AND THREW THEIR BODIES IN THE NERETVA RIVER.

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