In memoriam, Obituary
IN MEMORIAM SREĆKO BOŽIČEVIĆ MAN OF THE PEAKS AND PITS
HELENA KNIFIĆ SCHAPS
Abstract
Srećko Božičević was born on 16th January 1935 in Velika Trnovitica, he died on 15th March
2015 in Zagreb. He attended primary school and grammar school in Zagreb, graduated in geology
and geography, obtained his masters and doctorate degrees in 1985 in the field of speleology
and acquired additional knowledge and skills (independent underground miner, diver). He was
employed at the Geological Institute of Croatia, today the Institute for Geological Research in
1959, and finished his working life in 1999.
He published ten or so books and hundreds of professional and scientific papers from the
fields of speleology and hydrogeology translated into 35 languages, visited and studied thousands
of speleological structures including the Jazovka pit. As an excellent photographer he organised
dozens of solo exhibitions, he was a member of all the relevant mountaineering and speleological
associations, Foto Klub Zagreb, the editor and member of the editorial boards of many expert
publications. He had many mountaineering and speleological acknowledgements.
He was given the ‘Ivo Horvat’ state award for his life’s work in the field of environmental
and nature protection in 2006. In his honour a new species of cave insect, which was found during
the exploration of caverns of the later to be Učka tunnel, was named ‘Croatodirus bozicevici’.
Keywords
Hydrogeology; speleology; photography; field investigations; patriotism; truthfulness
Hrčak ID:
192328
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Publication date:
15.12.2017.
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