Adolfo Veber Tkalčević

Adolfo Veber Tkalčević (11 May 1825[1] − 6 August 1889[2]) was a Croatian philologist, writer, literary critic, aestheticist, and politician.

He has continued the tradition of the Illyrian movement, as outlined by Vjekoslav Babukić and Antun Mažuranić, but clearly distanced himself from Gaj's attempts of relating to Vuk Karadžić.

He was important as one of the storytellers which has, in the middle of the 19th century, broken the practice of Turkish novellas and romantic prose introducing the elements of Realism into Croatian literature.

His aesthetic views with a classicistic background influenced his philological works and many of his solutions in norming the Croatian standard language.

[7] His defence of Illyrian views on literary language was published in Vienac in 1884 under the title Brus jezika ili zagrebačka škola.