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Vicko Lisičar: Koločep once and now
Lisičar, Vicko, Croatian historian (Stari Grad na Hvar, December 12, 1879 – Dubrovnik, March 23, 1938). He studied at the seminary in Zadar, was ordained in 1904. He was a pastor in Maranovići on Mljet and Blato on Korčula. Retired in 1913 due to health problems, and from 1915, during the First World War, he once again served as a chaplain in the Austro-Hungarian army. From 1919 he served in the parish of Kliševo (near Dubrovnik), where he devoted himself to research work and wrote a large number of historical treatises. Then, in 1929, he transferred to the service of Lopud, and published a book about its past, Lopud: historical and contemporary presentation (1931). In most of his historiographical work, he dealt with the history of the Elaphite Islands and various topics related to the history and art of Dubrovnik and its surroundings. In the last years of his life, he was the manager of the parish of St. Andrije na Pilame and the editor of the Dubrovnik newspaper Narodna svestna. His unfinished history of the island of Šipan is preserved in the manuscript. Other works: Koločep nekoć i sada (1932), Illuminating one fact: the answer of Mr. dr. Jorja Tadić (1933), Defense of Korčula from the Turks in 1571 (1934), Three Dubrovnik Islands: (Daksa, Sveti Andrija and Ruda) (1935).
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