Zdravko Dizdar

Zdravko Dizdar (born 27 January 1948) is a Croatian historian.

Early life Dizdar attended elementary school in Orolik near Vinkovci from grades 1 to 4 before spending grades 5 to 8 in his hometown of Oklaj. In 1962, he attended a grammar school in Zemun. He began studying history in 1966 at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy and graduated in 1970, before continuing his education at the University of Zagreb.

Career From 1972 to 1980, Dizdar worked as a curator at the Pounja Regional Museum in Bihać. He organized collections, published contributions, and arranged exhibitions on the history of Pounja from 1878 to 1945. Pounja is a micro-region in Croatia based around the Una River.

Under the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb in 1979, he published his Master's thesis 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 worked at the Croatian Institute for History in Zagreb.

Recognition Ljubica Štefan Award in 2011.

Works