Mirko Valentić

Mirko Valentić (born 19 September 1932) is a Croatian historian.

Mirko Valentić
Born (1932-09-19) 19 September 1932
Ivanjska, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
NationalityCroatian
OccupationHistorian

Biography

Mirko Valentić was born on 19 September 1932 in Ivanjska near Banja Luka, then part of the Vrbas Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina). In 1961 he graduated history at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb and received his doctorate in 1978 with the thesis "Hrvatsko-slavonska Vojna krajina i pitanje njezina sjedinjenja s Hrvatskom 1849.-1881" (Croatian-Slavonian Military Border and the question of its unification with Croatia 1849-1881). Since 1993 he working as a professor at the Croatian Studies of the University of Zagreb Department of History, Course Croatia from the 16th to the 18th century.

Since 2005 he has been a member of the council for the preparation of Amicus curiae before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.[1]

Research topics of Mirko Valentić are Military Frontier; 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.[2]

Selected works
  • Kameni spomenici Hrvatske XIII-XIX stoljeća, Zagreb, 1969.
  • Gradišćanski Hrvati od XVI stoljeća do danas, Zagreb, 1970.
  • Die Burgelaendische Kroaten, Eisenstadt: Landesmuseum Eisenstadt, 1972.
  • The Military Frontier and the Question of Its Unification with Croatia, 1849–1881, Zagreb, 1981.
  • Vojna krajina u Hrvatskoj, Zagreb, 1981.
  • O etničkom korijenu hrvatskih i bosanskih Srba, Zagreb, 1992.
  • Das Eisenbahnnetz in der Militaergrenze Plaene und Verwirklichung, Wien, 1993.
  • Hrvatska na tajnim zemljovidima 18. i 19. st. Sv. 10: Varaždinska županija Zagreb, 2006
  • Rat protiv Hrvatske - 1991. - 1995. - Velikosrpski projekti od ideje do realizacije, Zagreb, 2010.
  • War against Croatia 1991 - 1995: Greater Serbian projects from idea to implementation, Zagreb - Slavonski Brod, 2012.

Legacy and awards

Časni znak zemlje Gradišće(2013)[3]

References
  1. Prof. dr. sc. Mirko Valentić, scientist emeritus, Hrvatski institut za povijest( Croatian Institute of History)
  2. Prof. dr. sc. Mirko Valentić, scientist emeritus, Hrvatski institut za povijest( Croatian Institute of History)
  3. Časni znak za Mirka Valentića(Časni znak for Mirko Valentić) Burgenland Croat award
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