Vatroslav Jagić, Croatian philologist and scholar (d. 1923)
Vatroslav Jagić (pronounced [ʋǎtroslaʋ jǎːɡitɕ]; July 6, 1838 – August 5, 1923) was a Croatian scholar of Slavic studies in the second half of the 19th century.
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