Mirko Valentić
{{Short description|Croatian historian (1932–2025)}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1932|09|19}}
| birth_place = Ivanjska, Yugoslavia
{{small|(now Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina)}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2025|01|18|1932|09|19}}
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| nationality = Croatian
| occupation = Historian
}}
Mirko Valentić (19 September 1932 – 18 January 2025) was a Croatian historian.
Biography
Mirko Valentić was born in Ivanjska near Banja Luka, then part of the Vrbas Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina).{{cite web |title=Mirko Valentić |url=https://www.isp.hr/djelatnici-u-miru/ |website=www.isp.hr |publisher=Hrvatski institut za povijest}} In 1961, he graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb with a degree in History 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). From 1993 onward, he worked as a professor at the University of Zagreb.
In 2005, Valentić became a member of the council for the preparation of Amicus curiae before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
His research topics included the Military Frontier; transport integration and Adriatic orientation of Croatia; migration and colonization processes in the 16th and 17th centuries; Burgenland Croats; and "Greater Serbian projects" of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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, Vienna, 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.
Awards
References
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External links
- [https://www.bib.irb.hr/pregled/znanstvenici/51473?order_by=year_asc List of scientific works for Mirko Valentić]
- [http://tkojetko.irb.hr/znanstvenikDetalji.php?sifznan=1651 Mirko Valentić, biography]
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Category:Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Category:20th-century Croatian historians