Frano Kršinić

Frano Kršinić (24 July 1897 – 1 January 1982) was a renowned Croatian sculptor. Along with Ivan Meštrović and Antun Augustinčić he is considered one of the three most important Croatian sculptors of the 20th century. His most widely known work is the statue of Nikola Tesla installed at the Niagara Falls State Park, United States, an identical copy of the monument residing in front of the building of the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade (Serbia).

Kršinić was born in 1897 in the village of Lumbarda on the Adriatic island of Korčula in south Croatia, which was at the time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was born into a family with a long tradition of stonemasonry, and he was also trained at the local stonemasonry school before going on to attend the stone-working and masonry school in Hořice (in present-day Czech Republic) in 1912. Upon graduation in 1916 he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he studied in the classes of renowned Czech sculptors Josef Václav Myslbek and Jan Štursa and graduated in 1920. He then returned to Croatia and settled in Zagreb, where he worked as a freelance sculptor before becoming a teacher of sculpting at the Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb in 1924.

Frano Kršinić (biologist)

Frano Kršinić (born 23 August 1947 in Lumbarda) is a Croatian marine biologist.

Kršinić was born in Lumbarda, on the island of Korčula. He obtained his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb.

Since 1972 he has been employed at the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries in Dubrovnik, where he is currently a head of the Laboratory of Plankton Ecology. His research focus is plankton of the Adriatic Sea.

Kršinić is a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2000. He is the chairman of the Academy's Scientific Council for Adriatic Research.

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