Summary
A historian and geographer from Sutivan, and longtime editor of ‘Brački zbornik’ (‘Brač Anthology’). He studied the origins of island settlements and the ancestry of their inhabitants, and compiled a bibliography of Brač.
He published the book ‘Naselja i porijeklo stanovništva na otoku Braču’ (‘Settlements and the Origins of the Population on the Island of Brač’) in 1950.
Sutivan and a teaching career
Jutronić was born in Sutivan and studied geography and natural history in Graz and Zagreb. He taught in Sombor and Split. Alongside teaching, he researched Brač, bringing together geography, history, ethnography and the economy.
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Settlements and population
He used parish registers and other archival material to study the origins of settlements and population movements. He published his findings in the book ‘Naselja i porijeklo stanovništva na otoku Braču’. His approach shows that the history of a place includes migration, family ties and changes in ways of life.
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Brački zbornik and the bibliography
He was among the founders of the Brač Society and edited ‘Brački zbornik’ from its first issue in 1940 until 1977. In ‘Bibliografija otoka Brača’ (‘Bibliography of the Island of Brač’), he gathered published works about the island; his book ‘Iz kulturne prošlosti Brača’ (‘From the Cultural Past of Brač’) connected literary and cultural history. His legacy also serves as a guide to other sources.
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