Slavko Peleh
Slavko Peleh (1937), is a Croatian economist, translator, publicist, bibliographer and enigmatic, notable as a translator of Kalevala in Croatian language,[1] as well as historian and bibliographer of Croatian chess and enigmatic history.
Biography[edit]
Born in 1937 in Okučani, where he attends elementary school. He graduated in 1956 at the realgymnasium in Nova Gradiška and in 1961 at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Zagreb. He was a professor at the Economic school in Ogulin (1963–65), chief commercialist at the Television Zagreb (today's HRT, 1971–77) and business secretary at Vjesnik (1977–93). He obtained his doctoral degree at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb with thesis Književni rad na zagonetkama u ilirsko i postilirsko doba 1835.-1865. He was the first president of the Croatian Society of Enigmatics (1983–85) and president of Čvor, enigmatic society in Bjelovar. He was reserve captain of the Croatian National Guard (1991–93) during the Croatian War of Independence. He is an author of entries on chess and enigmatics in Croatian Encyclopaedia.
Peleh wrote biographies of famous Croatian enigmatics and chess-players. He was a participant of the National Congress of Italian Enigmatics (Milan, 1977) and of the Congress of American Enigmatics (Princeton, 1980), as well as international enigmatics conferences in Budapest (1974), Warsaw (1975), Berlin (1976), Bjelovar (1978) and Prague (1985). Peleh was competitor at the Croatian Youth Chess Championships in 1955 and 1956. He wrote for Čvor, Skandi Čvor, Čvor razbibriga, Il Labirinto, Večer, Mogućnosti, Zagonetač, Senjski zbornik and Školske novine.
References[edit]
- ↑ Peleh, Slavko (translator). Kalevala: finski nacionalni ep / na temelju usmenih pjesama sastavio Elias Loennrot Čvor, Bjelovar, 2006.
External links[edit]
- List of publications in the Catalogue of the National and University Library in Zagreb
- List of publications in Hrčak: Portal of Croatian Scientific and Professional Journals
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