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William Klinger (24 September 1972 − 31 January 2015) was a Croatian historian who specialized in modern Croatian and Yugoslav history as well as
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Biography

Klinger was born on 24 September 1972 in Rijeka, SFR Yugoslavia,Izvješće - Filozofski fakultet - Sveučilište u Zagrebu
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and of German ethnic descent. He graduated summa cum laude from the
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in 1997 with a BA in history, while attending also the
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due to a stipend he received from the Austrian government. He gained master's degree at the
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in
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and doctoral degree at the
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in
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, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation titled "Negotiating the Nation: Fiume, from Autonomism to State making 1848-1924". Klinger lived in the Italian town of
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. An independent researcher, he was employed by the ''Centro di Ricerche Storiche di Rovigno'' (Center for Historical Research of Rovinj). Aside from
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and Croatian Klinger also spoke German,
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, Friulian,
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and Slovene. Klinger was found with a gunshot wound to the head on 31 January 2015 in
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in
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, where he had been attending a conference on
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, the
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and the post-war Balkans. He died the same day at Elmhurst Hospital, where he was taken after he was found lying near the park's public pool. His acquaintance Alexander Bonich was questioned by the police on the following day, when he admitted to killing Klinger. At trial, the prosecution accused Bonich of luring Klinger to the United States on false pretenses - Bonich offered to get Klinger an apartment in Astoria and set him up with a university job if Klinger gave him money. Klinger wired 68,000 euros to Bonich for a nonexistent apartment and job; the two apparently had a falling out after the fraud was discovered leading to Bonich shooting Klinger.


Bibliography

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THE HISTORIAN AND THE MURDERER
an account from a witness at the trial and acquaintance of Klinger's {{DEFAULTSORT:Klinger, William 1972 births 2015 deaths 21st-century Italian historians Croatian emigrants to Italy Croatian people of Austrian descent Historians of communism Writers from Rijeka Central European University alumni European University Institute alumni Deaths by firearm in Queens, New York