Stjepan Matičević (19 December 1880 - 16 June 1940) was a Croatian pedagogue, philosopher, university professor and academic.
[1] Stjepan Matičević was born in Gradishte, near Kutjeva, Croatia.
After primary and secondary education, he studied philosophy in Zagreb and Vienna, where he obtained his doctorate.
He is committed to the autonomy of pedagogy, but linked to axiology and psychology.
He was a representative of functionalist and personalist pedagogy and against the working schools.