Nenad MOACANIN

Nenad

MOACANIN

Professor Nenad Moačanin was born in 1949 in Zagreb, Croatia where he has got the classical high-school diploma. At the Zagreb University he has completed the study of history (general and national) in 1973. Then in 1979 at the Sarajevo University he obtained the B.A. degree in Oriental Studies, main subject Turkish language and literature (with the degree thesis on the poetry and humanism of Yunus Emre). Again, in 1990 at the Zagreb University he successfully defended his PhD thesis „Towns in Ottoman-Turkish Slavonia and Sirem“. Since 1984 he is frequently attending the principal conferences in the realm of Ottoman and Turkish history (mainly CIÉPO, as a member of the board since 2004, and ICOSEH, as a member of the Executive Commitee since 2001). In 2008 he was co-organizer of the 18th CIEPO congress in Zagreb. From 1978 until 1992 he was working at the Historical Institute of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, then until the present day at the History department of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Zagreb University, since 2002 as professor. Presently he is the head of the chair for national history. In the last fifteen years he was leading several research projects in the field of Ottoman history and its heritage in the Western Balkans. Nowadays, with the expert team of fifteen collaborators, he is initiating a project entitled „Croato-Turcica“ aiming at a comprehensive synthesis of Turkish-Croatian relations from the early beginnings in the Middle Ages until the present. In 2012 he was elected associate member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
For shorter and longer periods (1988, 1992, 1998-1999, 2009 and 2012) he was performing archival research in Turkey. In Turkey he has presented the results of his investigations on conferences and other occasions in İstanbul, Ankara, Van and Balıkesir (Arit, A.Ü.D.T.C.F., Netherlands Institute in Turkey, ODTÜ, Bilkent, Balıkesir Üniversitesi). He has also produced a number of entries for Turkish, Croatian and other encyclopedias and manuals (Türkler, İslam Ansiklopedisi, Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire).
The main field of his scholarly interest is primarily the social and economic history of the Ottoman Empire in Europe whereby his main contribution is the evaluation of the Ottoman tax records (1650 – 1850) as the source for demographic estimations under a new angle. Since the 1980-es he was promoting Turkology and Ottoman studies in Croatia where they did not exist previously, except for rare and short-lived attempts. In 1994, he became the co-founder of the study of Turkology in Croatia on the organized and regular basis. As one of the results of this endeavor, five of his former students have become first-rate researchers, of which one is already internationally recognized scholar in the field of Ottoman studies. In addition, in the last ten years he was the mentor of seven PhD students, and still is for four, one from Zadar (Croatia) and others Bosnia-Herzegovina. In Livno, also in Bosnia-Herzegovina, together with Professor Michael Ursinus, he has recently helped the founding of the research center for transregional Bosnian-Dalmatian history in the Ottoman period.
Having started in 2012, he is contributing to a number of ongoing projects, led by Croatian and Turkish experts, aiming at the reevaluation and restoration of the Ottoman cultural heritage in Croatia. In particular his attention was focused on the new interpretation of Ottoman archival sources on the great bridge at Osijek (sultan Kanuni Süleyman's bridge).
Nenad Moačanin has published five books and about eighty articles and reviews. He speaks English, German, French, Turkish and Italian and uses literature on several other languages.

Professor Nenad Moačanin was born in 1949 in Zagreb, Croatia where he has got the classical high-school diploma. At the Zagreb University he has completed the study of history (general and national) in 1973. Then in 1979 at the Sarajevo University he obtained the B.A. degree in Oriental Studies, main subject Turkish language and literature (with the degree thesis on the poetry and humanism of Yunus Emre). Again, in 1990 at the Zagreb University he successfully defended his PhD thesis „Towns in Ottoman-Turkish Slavonia and Sirem“. Since 1984 he is frequently attending the principal conferences in the realm of Ottoman and Turkish history (mainly CIÉPO, as a member of the board since 2004, and ICOSEH, as a member of the Executive Commitee since 2001). In 2008 he was co-organizer of the 18th CIEPO congress in Zagreb. From 1978  until 1992 he was working at the Historical Institute of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, then until the present day at the History department of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Zagreb University, since 2002 as professor. Presently he is the head of the chair for national history. In the last fifteen years he was leading several research projects in the field of Ottoman history and its heritage in the Western Balkans. Nowadays, with the expert team of fifteen collaborators, he is initiating a project entitled „Croato-Turcica“ aiming at a comprehensive synthesis of Turkish-Croatian relations from the early beginnings in the Middle Ages until the present. In 2012 he was elected associate member of  the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
For shorter and longer periods (1988, 1992, 1998-1999, 2009 and 2012) he was performing archival research in Turkey. In Turkey he has presented the results of his investigations on conferences and other occasions in İstanbul, Ankara, Van and Balıkesir (Arit, A.Ü.D.T.C.F., Netherlands Institute in Turkey, ODTÜ, Bilkent, Balıkesir Üniversitesi). He has also produced a number of entries for Turkish, Croatian and other encyclopedias and manuals (Türkler, İslam Ansiklopedisi, Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire). 
The main field of his scholarly interest is primarily the social and economic history of the Ottoman Empire in Europe whereby his main contribution is the evaluation of the Ottoman tax records (1650 – 1850) as the source for demographic estimations under a new angle. Since the 1980-es he was promoting Turkology and Ottoman studies in Croatia where they did not exist previously, except for rare and short-lived attempts. In 1994, he became the co-founder of the study of Turkology in Croatia on the organized and regular basis. As one of the results of this endeavor, five of his former students have become first-rate researchers, of which one is already internationally recognized scholar in the field of Ottoman studies. In addition, in the last ten years he was the mentor of seven PhD students, and still is for four, one from Zadar (Croatia) and others Bosnia-Herzegovina. In Livno, also in  Bosnia-Herzegovina, together with Professor Michael Ursinus, he has recently helped the founding of the research center for transregional Bosnian-Dalmatian history in the Ottoman period. 
Having started in 2012, he is contributing to a number of ongoing projects, led by Croatian and Turkish experts, aiming at the reevaluation and restoration of the Ottoman cultural heritage in Croatia.  In particular his attention was focused on the new interpretation of Ottoman archival sources on the great bridge at Osijek (sultan Kanuni Süleyman's bridge).
Nenad Moačanin has published five books and about  eighty articles and reviews. He speaks English, German, French, Turkish and Italian and uses literature on several other languages.

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