Trpimir Macan
Trpimir Macan is a Croatian historian and lexicographer.
He was born in Dubrovnik. He studied history in Zagreb and Sarajevo, where he graduated in 1959. In 1971 he received his Ph.D. in Zagreb with a thesis Life and work of Miho Klaić, which was in 1980 published as a monograph titled Miho Klaić. He worked in Metković, whence he relocated to Zagreb, and since 1965 he has been working at the Miroslav Krleža Lexicographical Institute as an editor of historical encyclopedias and lexicons. He is the serving Editor-In-Chief of the Croatian Biographical Lexicon and an anthology Biobibliographica.
His scientific research deals with the history of Dubrovnik and Neretva region. He has authored a number of historical contributions to Croatian history and politicians of the 19th and 20th century. He edited Povijest Hrvata od najstarijih vremena do svršetka XIX stoljeća by Vjekoslav Klaić, Pregled povijesti hrvatskog naroda by Ferdo Šišić, Sjećanja by Zvonimir Vrkljan, Moj životopis by Tias Mortigjija, and an anthology Hrvatska i održivi razvitak: humane i odgojne vrednote.Works
His seminal work Povijest hrvatskog naroda was destroyed after the fall of the Croatian Spring, and was republished in a revised edition in 1992. His other works are:
- Iz povijesti Donjeg Poneretavlja
- Susreti s hrvatskom Kliom
- Kratka povijest Hrvatske
- Povijesni prijepori
- Hrvatska povijest
- Rat i dokolica
- Rt Oštra u povijesti i politici
- Spremnost
- Posljednja opsada Dubrovnika
- Hrvatskom prošlosti: pogledi i osvrti.
In 2005 he published a book of poetry Oskoruše.
