He was born in Volosko in 1857., studied in Prague, he taught at the Nautical School in Bakar, school in Osijek and Zagreb University. He was a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and there is a crater on the moon carring his name . He died in Zagreb in 1936.
Discovery of the Mohorovicic discontinuity  is one of the greatest achievements in the field of seismology of all time.