Prof. Dr. Mirko Valentić , scientist emeritus

(September 19, 1932, Ivanjska, Banja Luka, Republic of
Bosnia and Herzegovina – 18. 01. 2025. Zagreb, Republic of Croatia)
Registration number in the Ministry of Science of the Republic of Croatia (EZR): 51473;
Scientific advisor; re-elected in 1994;
Scientist Emeritus, elected in 2006.

Schooling:
Graduated in 1953;
Graduated in 1961; studied history at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb.
Doctorate in 1978; Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, Humanities, field of historical science.
Doctoral thesis topic: Croatian-Slavonian Military Frontier and the question of its unification with Croatia
1849-1881.

Information on professional development abroad:
War Archives in Vienna, 1976 and 1977 (research of archival materials).

Jobs and duties:
School for Educators, as a history professor (1961-1964);
Historical Museum of Croatia, curator (1964-1971);
Croatian Institute of History (1971-2002).
Director of the Croatian Institute of History from 1990 until his retirement in 2002.

Since 1993, he has been working as a professor at the Croatian Studies Department of the University of Zagreb, Department of History, Course Croatia from the 16th to the 18th Century.
Since 2005, member of the Council for the Preparation of Amicus Litigation before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

Research and scientific work:
Research topics:
Military Border; Transport integration and Adriatic orientation of Croatia; Migration and colonization processes during the 16th and 17th centuries; Burgenland Croats; Greater Serbian projects of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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