| Zdravka Matišić | |
| Birth Date: | 16 May 1944 |
| Birth Place: | Travnik |
| Alma Mater: | Zagreb University |
| Nationality: | Croatian |
| Known For: | Literary scholarship |
| Notable Works: | Elements of Hindi Grammar (1996) (Croatian: Elementi hindske gramatike), the only manual for Hindi in Croatian |
Zdravka Matišić (b. 16 June 1944, Travnik) is a Croatian Indologist and Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies and Hungarian Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy at Zagreb University.[1]
She is known for her work in both Sanskrit and modern Indian literature, her translations from Sanskrit, including a 1980 translation of Pañcatantra, and her linguistic study of the Hindi language.[1]
In 1996, she authored Elements of Hindi Grammar, the only manual for Hindi in Croatian.[1]
She is also active in historical research, including on the contributions of Croatian missionaries in India,[1] and authored the 2007 work Joy, Fear, Dedication: Contributions to the biography of Ivan Filip Vesdin Paulin and Sancto Bartholomaeo (Croatian: Radost, strah, predanost: Prilozi za biografiju Ivana Filipa Vesdina Paulina a Sancto Bartholomaeo).[2]
She co-authored India and Tibet by Nikola Ratkay (2002) (Croatian: Indije i Tibet Nikole Ratkaja) with .[3]