The topic of this thesis is "Life and work of Antun Radić". The work is divided into periods that marked his life. From a poor, peasant family who lived in Desno Trebarjevo, with perseverance and a desire to learn, he lived in many Croatian cities and the capital of the Monarchy. After earning his Ph.D., he began working as a teacher at a school, where he eventually left the service due to political intrigue. His work Fundamentals of Collecting and Studying Materials on People's Life made him the father of Croatian ethnology. He became politically active, he started working as the secretary of Matica hrvatska and the editor of Glas Matica hrvatska. Certainly, his greatest contribution was the publication of the journal Dom, which was the first Croatian magazine intended for the peasantry. Because of the journal Dom, the way was opened for the founding of the oldest Croatian political party, the Croatian People's Peasant Party, whose president was his younger brother Stjepan. Severely ill, Antun Radić died in 1919 at the age of 50.