 His father is the world-famous geophysicist Andrija Mohorovičić.He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Zagreb where among others his professors were Vinko Dvořák and Andrija Mohorovičić and later he studied at Göttingen where some of his professors were Arnold Sommerfeld, Woldemar Voigt and David Hilbert.Later on he received a doctorate degree from the University of Zagreb.