Miroslav Kurelac (25 May 1926 – 7 October 2004) was a Yugoslav and

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n historian. He was born in

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. He received a degree in history in 1954 at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, and a Ph.D. at the

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in 1987. Until 1956 he worked as an archivist in the Archives of the City of Zagreb. In 1954 he took a specialist training at the Archives Nationales de France where he attended courses in paleography at the

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at the

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. In 1956 he became an assistant at the Historical Institute of the Academy in Zagreb, where he worked since 1988 as a research associate, and since 1990 as a scientific advisor. From the 1979 he served as a manager, and in the period 1995-2002 as the Head of the Department of Historical Sciences at the

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. In 1994 he was elected as an associate member of the Academy. In his scientific papers Kurelac studied the Croatian historiography of the period of Humanism and the Renaissance, especially the historiographical work of Ivan Lučić. His main work is ''Ivan Lučić-Lucius: otac hrvatske historiografije'' ("Ivan Lučić-Lucius: The Father of Croatian Historiography"), 1994. He died in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kurelac, Miroslav Yugoslav historians 1926 births 2004 deaths University of Zagreb alumni University of Zadar alumni 20th-century Croatian historians