Nikola Andrić (5 July 1867 – 7 April 1942) was a Croatian writer, philologist and translator. Biography He was born in Vukovar in 1867 .After obtaining a degree in Romance and Slavic studies in Vienna and Paris, he received his PhD in 1897 in Vienna. At the invitation of Stjepan Miletić he became a dramaturge at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb (1894–1898, 1901–1907). In 1898 together with Miletić he founded the Acting School, where he had taught for many years. He was one of the founders and the first manager of the National Theatre in Osijek in 1907. In 1913 he started a popular publishing house Zabavna biblioteka ("An entertainment library") and served as its Editor-In-Chief until his death. During that period, Zabavna biblioteka published more than 600 volumes of mostly translated novels, but also domestic fiction. It had a major role in shaping the taste of domestic readership. Andrić served as a president of the Croatian Writers' Association. Between 1925 and 1926 he was an Assistant Minister of Education to Stjepan Radić in Belgrade. He died in Zagreb. Writing Andrić was a prolific writer who successfully contributed to various areas. In 1887 in the weekly Srijemski Hrvat he published a short story Lov na sjedećke, a parody of the humorous piece with the same name written by Vilim Korajac. Since 1888 he regularly writes essays on French literature for Vijenac. His first book U vagonu (1891) is a compilation of feuilletons written in his youth. A bit more successful were his travelogues Od Balkana do Montblanca ("From the Balkans to the Montblanc"; I–II, 1927). Andrić's literary-historical and linguistic works are generally considered much more valuable than his fictional works. His book Pod apsolutizmom ("Under absolutism"; 1906) is a synthesis of Croatian literary production during the period of Bach's absolutism (1851–1860), and the study Izvori starih kajkavskih drama ("The sources of old Kajkavian dramas"; Rad JAZU, 146, 1901) he investigates the lesser-known, mostly German templates for the 18th century Kajkavian dramas. In 1902 he published a book about the making of secular literature in Slavonia, Iz ratničke književnosti hrvatske. He wrote a monograph on Serbian writer Pavle Solarić, and in 1895 a book Spomen-knjiga Hrvatskog zemaljskog kazališta pri otvaranju nove kazališne zgrade ("The memorial book of the Croatian State Theatre for the opening of the new theater building"). His most famous work is Branič jezika hrvatskoga ("Defender of Croatian";