Stjepan Spevec became a professor in 1874, after the formation of the University of Zagreb, located south of Vienna.
He became a university professor in 1874 after the foundation of University of Zagreb, and soon after a rector in the academic year 1875/1876. The University of Zagreb (Croatian: Sveuciliste u Zagrebu, pronounced [seutilite u zagrebu; Latin: Universitas Studiorum Zagrabiensis) is the largest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of Southeastern Europe. 
