Andrija Jambrešić

He is best known for his dictionary Lexicon Latinum, which he created in collaboration with Franjo Sušnik (1686 – 1739) and published in 1742, Zagreb.

[1] Following his studies of philosophy in Trnava, he became a professor at the Zagreb gymnasium, a post he held for a year in 1729.

[3] The multilingual dictionary, Lexicon Latinum interpretatione Illyrica, Germanica et Hungarica locuples & index illirico sive croatico-latinus represents an important monument in studies of linguistics, lexicography, comparative Slavistics and dialectology.

The Croatian counterpart, named Illyrian, is written in the Kajkavian dialect, but with elements of Shtokavian and Chakavian.

The linguistic purism is reflected in numerous translated, and newly coined words, particularly in scientific terminology.