Antonio Pauletich was born in 1930 in Rovinj. He completed a degree in Italian language and literature in the Faculty of Philosophy of Belgrade in 1963, and did a post-graduate course in information science and museology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, 1981.
From 1952 he worked as housing officer. The Rijeka Conservation Institute hired him as an honorary conservator and in this capacity he toured 46 churches in the surrounds in order to record their real condition. In 1962 the initiative committee of the city of Rovinj was formed, and it launched the issue of renewing the work of the Rovinj Local History Museum, appointing Pauletich its director. At the same time he ran the Stankovićiana, the name given to the library of Petar Stanković. The local museum in Rovinj, as well as the Ethnographic Collection, possessed several archaeological items, a collection of old masters, and about 40 works of modern art. During his work in the museum, Pauletich systematically acquired material for all the collections and in his own words acquired about 1600 more works of art, and thus enriched the Modern Art Collection. Because of the collection of old masters it owned, the Rovinj Local History Museum set off an initiative for the foundation of a restoration workshop for Istria as a whole; however, this plan came to nothing. Pauletich founded the biennial exhibition Ars Istria and managed to acquire a large number of works by Rovinj painters. He was one of those who launched the Rovinj Historical Research Centre. He works on the research into, photographing and documentation of all the Italian graves in Istria and Slovenia. Thanks to him, a list and a plan for a stone collection has been made. He is also researching the seafarers’ cemetery and cemeteries from the Austrian period.
He has been retired since 1996, and for his work won the City of Rovinj Prize for lifetime achievement in 2001.

NB. Data taken from the questionnaire, material taken from the Personnel Archives of the MDC, and from an interview recorded on May 25, 2002.