Jure Zovko, born on November 11, 1957 in Široki Brijeg (Bosnia and Herzegovina), studied philosophy, German, and theology at the universities of Sarajevo (1978-1980) and Freiburg im Breisgau, where he completed his M.A. in 1985 and his Ph.D. in 1989 with the dissertation "Verstehen und Nichtverstehen. Zur Entstehung und Bedeutung der Schlegelschen hermeneutischen Kritik" both under the direction of Michael Elsässer. Since 1990 Zovko has conducted research at the Institute for Philosophy of the University of Zagreb. Lecturer and co-founder of the interdisciplinary program in the humanities "Croatian Studies" at the University of Zagreb, since 1992. From 1993-2000 Deputy Minister for Science and Technology for the Republic of Croatia. Since 1999, Professor for Ontology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zadar. Guest professor in Mainz and Vienna. Summer Scholar, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C., 1999. Research specialisation: hermeneutics, Ancient Greek philosophy, German idalism.
Publications: Verstehen und Nichtverstehen bei Friedrich Schlegel. Zur Entstehung und Bedeutung seiner hermeneutischen Kritik, (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1990); Platon und die philosophische Hermeneutik (Zagreb 1992; Croatian); Flacius Illyricus: De ratione cognoscendi Sacras literas (Zagreb 1993; Croatian); Essays über Platon (Zagreb 1998, Croatia); Platons Euthyphron (Zagreb 1998); Kroatische Philosophie im europ¸aischen Kontext ( St. Augustin 2003) Various articles on Heidegger and Wittgenstein.
Co-editor, with Erwin Hufnagel (Mainz), of the philosophical journal Studia hermeneutica (St. Augustin, Gardez! Verlag).