Luka Marjanović

Born in the village Zavalje next to Bihać, Marjanović went on to become a professor of law and the first person from Bosnia & Herzegovina to become a rector at the University of Zagreb. He completed his law studies in Zagreb, and received his doctorate in 1872 in Vienna. From 1872 to 1874 he taught Austrian civil law at the Law Academy in Zagreb. He left the university in 1903 when he was appointed head of the Government’s Department of Justice. His ethnographic work is also valuable. He collected and studied Croatian folk songs and folk songs of Bosnian muslim singers.