Sixty-five years of the Section for dialectology and history of the Croatian language at the University of Zagreb

Sa？etak This article offers an overview of the development of the Section for dialectology and history of the croatian language at the Faculty of humanities and social sciences, University of Zagreb, from its founding in 1950 until today. The paper was written to mark the sixty-fifth anniversary of its activity and the upcoming nintieth birthday of the section’s chair of many years, academician Milan Mogu？. Particular emphasis is given to how our teachers created the necessary teaching materials – handbooks, textbooks, readers, excercise books, and dictionaries – for the needs of students of the diachronic linguistic study of the croatian language. The article ends with an overview of the teaching staff of the section, with their most important biographic information