Zdravko Dizdar | |
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Nationality | Croatian |
Occupation | Historian |
Years active | 1980–present |
Zdravko Dizdar (born 27 January 1948) is a Croatian historian.
Dizdar attended elementary school in Orolik at Vinkovci from grades 1 to 4, before spending grades 5 to 8 in his native town of Oklaj. From there, he attended a grammar school in Zemun in 1962. He began studying history in 1966 at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy and graduated in 1970. He continued his education at the University of Zagreb.
Between 1972 and 1980, Dizdar worked as a curator at the Pounja Regional Museum in Bihać. He conducted collections, published contributions, and organized exhibitions on the recent history of Pounja from 1878 to 1945, a micro-region in Croatia based around the Una River.
Under the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb in 1979, he published The Workers' Movement in Pounja 1929–1941 and gained a doctorate with his dissertation Chetnik War Crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1941 to 1945.
Since 1980, he has been employed by the Croatian Institute for History in Zagreb. [1]
Papers, scholarly contributions: Croatia Scientific Bibliography (CROSBI) [2]
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