To all colleagues and friends of the Institute, it is with great pain and disbelief that we share the sad news that on Saturday, March 14, 2026, our dear colleague, scientific advisor with tenure, PhD Lovorka Čoralić, passed away suddenly.
Dr. Lovorka Čoralić was born in 1968 in Zadar. She graduated in single-subject History in 1990 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, where she also completed her Master’s degree in 1995 with the thesis “Roads and Routes in the Medieval Croatian Lands.” She defended her doctoral dissertation in 1998 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zadar under the title “Croats in Venice,” which she soon published in 2001 under the title “In the City of Saint Mark: The History of the Croatian Community in Venice”, for which she received the Matica hrvatska Award for Science for the year 2001.
From 1992 to 1997, she worked as a research assistant at the Department of Croatian History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. From 1997, she worked at the Croatian Institute of History, and since 2011 she held the permanent position of scientific advisor. She was an occasional external lecturer at the Catholic Faculty of Theology and the Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb, where she taught courses on the history of Venice and Italy. She also collaborated in scientific research and higher education teaching at the University of Primorska in Koper.
In her scholarly work, she primarily studied the political, economic, cultural, and ecclesiastical connections related to the presence and activities of emigrants from the eastern Adriatic coast in Venice and the wider Veneto area. She was the author of 18 scientific monographs and also the editor of numerous edited volumes.
She was a role model to many researchers and a mentor to numerous historians who are successful today.
She received multiple awards for her scientific work, including the Croatian State Award for Science in 2007 and the professional award “Tadija Smičiklas” for the best published archival material book in 2024.
Dear Lovorka, your Room 28 will be empty. We will miss you in the corridors of Opatička 10.
