Professor dr Marijan Hanžeković, lawyer and economist, as well as professor of literature and  language, worked in almost all areas of the economy, especial in finances, the fiscal and monetary system, banking, securities and stock exchanges. He was born in 1915 in Slavonska Požega, and he died in 1993 in Zagreb. He went to the Real Gymnasium in Zagreb, graduating in 1933, and took a doctorate in the Law Faculty in 1938.  In 1942 at the Faculty of Philosophy he took further degrees in English Language and Literature with Old English, then French Language and Literature, and then the  History of Croatian Literature and German.  He also studied for four terms at the Economic and Commercial College in Belgrade.

He published about two hundred original and review works, in the form of either free-standing publications or articles in professional journals, including some in foreign languages. An extensive biography and a selection from his works have been published in the journal Financial Practice (Financijska praksa), 18 (3), 173-358, 1994.