Milena Žic-Fuchs

Milena Žic-Fuchs
Minister of Science and Technology
In office 22 February 1999 – 27 January 2000
Prime Minister	Zlatko Mateša
Preceded by	Ivica Kostović
Succeeded by	Hrvoje Kraljević
Personal details
Born	10 August 1954 (1954-08-10) (age 57) Zagreb, Yugoslavia
Nationality	Croatian
Political party	Non-party[1]
Alma mater	University of Zagreb (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences)

Milena Žic-Fuchs (born 10 August 1954) is a Croatian linguist and full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She formerly served as the Croatian Minister of Science and Technology in the cabinet of Zlatko Mateša from February 1999 to January 2000.

Žic-Fuchs graduated from the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FFZG) in 1977, majoring in English language and literature and ethnology. In 1982 she received a MA in linguistics and in 1989 a PhD, also in linguistics.^[2] She worked at the faculty since the late 1970s in various lecturing roles and from 2002 holds position of Chair of Linguistics at the Department of English.

In May 2002 she became associate member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) and in May 2010 she was made full member of HAZU.^[3]

In January 2009 she was appointed to a 3-year term as Chair of the Standing Committee for the Humanities with the European Science Foundation.^[2]

She is credited with introducing cognitive linguistics into the Croatian linguistic community with her 1991 book Knowledge of Language and Knowledge of the World (Croatian: Znanje o jeziku i znanje o svijetu).^[3]

References

1. ^ "Žic-Fuchs ministrica znanosti, Đurkić ministar poljoprivrede" (in Croatian). Vjesnik. 23 February 1999. http://www.vjesnik.hr/html/1999/02/23/nunu.htm. Retrieved 17 December 2010. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Biographies : European Science Foundation". European Science Foundation. http://www.esf.org/about-us/esf-structure-and-governance/esf-managers/biographies.html. Retrieved 14 December 2010. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "Milena Žic-Fuchs - Biografija" (in Croatian). Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. http://info.hazu.hr/m_z_fuchs_biografija. Retrieved 14 December 2010. 

External links

• Milena Žic-Fuchs biography at the European Science Foundation website
• Milena Žic-Fuchs at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts website (Croatian)

Persondata
Name	Zic-Fuchs, Milena
Alternative names
Short description	Croatian scientist
Date of birth	10 August 1954
Place of birth	Zagreb, Croatia
Date of death
Place of death