Zdenko Vinski (3 May 1913 – 13 October 1996) was a notable

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. Vinski was born to a Jewish family on 3 May 1913 in

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where he finished elementary and high school. His father was Oton Vinski, an influential

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, and his mother was Štefanija Alexander, who came from the

Alexander family. Vinski graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the

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. In 1937, he received his postgraduate diploma which he translated in 1938 at the

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. Vinski was a

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at the department of General and National Medieval Archeology at the

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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

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east of

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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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