Zdenko Vinski (3 May 1913 – 13 October 1996) was a notable
Croatia
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archaeologist
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Vinski was born to a Jewish family on 3 May 1913 in
Zagreb
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where he finished elementary and high school. His father was
Oton Vinski, an influential
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banker
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, and his mother was Štefanija Alexander, who came from the
Zagreb
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Alexander family. Vinski graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the
University of Vienna
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. In 1937, he received his postgraduate diploma which he translated in 1938 at the
. Vinski was a
lecturer
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at the department of General and National Medieval Archeology at the
University of Zagreb
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. His works are considered essential in establishing the post-World War II apparatus for Croatia's archaeology. It was Vinski who dated the
Bijelo Brdo culture ("White Hill") site 1 on the
River Drava
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Osijek
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as 7th Century.
[Bože Mimica ''Slavonija u XX. stoljeću'' 2009 Page 332 "Nalazište Bijelo Brdo I. arheološki je pouzdano datirao Zdenko Vinski (1913-1996) u sredinu ili drugu polovicu 7. stoljeća."]
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1913 births
1996 deaths
Scientists from Zagreb
Croatian Jews
Jews from Austria-Hungary
Croatian Austro-Hungarians
Croatian archaeologists
Alexander family (Croatia)
Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery
20th-century archaeologists
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