Trpimir Macan (born 20 August 1935) is a

Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

and

lexicographer Lexicography is the study of lexicons and the art of compiling dictionaries. It is divided into two separate academic disciplines: * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionary, dictionaries. * The ...

. He was born in

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. He studied history in

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and

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, where he graduated in 1959. In 1971 he received his Ph.D. in Zagreb with a thesis ''Life and work of

Miho Klaić Miho Klaić (Dubrovnik, August 19, 1829 – Zadar, January 3, 1896) was a Croatians, Croatian politician and a leader of the Croatian revival in Dalmatia. He obtained a PhD in architecture in Padua, Italy. He was a member of the National Party and ...

'' (''Život i rad Miha Klaića''), which was in 1980 published as a monograph titled ''Miho Klaić''. He worked in

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, whence he relocated to Zagreb, and since 1965 he has been working at the

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as an editor of historical encyclopedias and lexicons. He is the serving Editor-In-Chief of the

Croatian Biographical Lexicon ''Croatian Biographical Lexicon'' () is a multi-volume biographical and bibliographical encyclopedia in Croatian, published by the Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography. It contains biographies of prominent Croats, as well as foreigners w ...

(since 1990) and an anthology ''Biobibliographica'' (since 2003). His scientific research deals with the history of Dubrovnik and

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region. He has authored a number of historical contributions to Croatian history and politicians of the 19th and 20th century (Miho Klaić,

Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski (; 29 May 1816 – 1 August 1889) was a Croatian historian, politician, and writer, most famous for delivering the first speech in Croatian before Parliament. Considered a renowned patriot, Kukuljević was a proponent ...

, Petar Preradović,

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). He edited ''Povijest Hrvata od najstarijih vremena do svršetka XIX stoljeća'' ("History of Croats from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century"; multiple editions since 1972) by

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, ''Pregled povijesti hrvatskog naroda'' ("Review of Croatian history"; 1975) by

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, ''Sjećanja'' ("Memoirs"; 1995) by Zvonimir Vrkljan, ''Moj životopis'' (" My biography"; 1996) by Tias Mortigjija, and an anthology ''Hrvatska i održivi razvitak: humane i odgojne vrednote'' ("Croatia and sustainable development: the human and educational values"; 1999).

Works

His seminal work ''Povijest hrvatskog naroda'' ("The History of the Croatian people"; 1971) was destroyed after the fall of the

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, and was republished in a revised edition in 1992. His other works are: * ''Iz povijesti Donjeg Poneretavlja'' (1971, extended edition in 1990) * ''Susreti s hrvatskom Kliom'' (1991) * ''Kratka povijest Hrvatske'' (A Short History of Croatia, co-authored with Josip Šentija, 1992) * ''Povijesni prijepori'' (1992) * ''Hrvatska povijest'' (1995) * ''Rat i dokolica'' (1995) * ''Rt Oštra u povijesti i politici (1998)'' * ''Spremnost'' (1998) * ''Posljednja opsada Dubrovnika'' (2001) * ''Hrvatskom prošlosti: pogledi i osvrti'' (2011). In 2005 he published a book of poetry ''Oskoruše''.

References

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