Srećko Matko Džaja

Srećko Matko Džaja (born October 29, 1935 in Kupres ) is a German historian of Yugoslav origin.

Life

Džaja studied theology from 1956 to 1963 at the Franciscan Theological College in Sarajevo, with an interruption between 1960 and 1962 because of the compulsory military service in the Yugoslav army. He was ordained priest in 1962 in Fojnica near Sarajevo . He continued his theology studies at the Catholic Theological Faculty in Zagreb, where he obtained a licentiate degree in 1965 and a doctorate in church history in 1971 . From 1965 to 1975 he taught church history at the Franciscan Theological College in Sarajevo. He then left the Franciscan order and the profession of priest and studied history, Slavic studies and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he received a PhD in 1983. phil. received his doctorate. In the 1980s and 1990s he was a research assistant at the Institute for the History of Eastern and Southeastern Europe at the LMU and at the Southeast Institute in Munich. Džaja has been a German citizen since 1994. In 2002 he was admitted to the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia-Herzegovina in Sarajevo. He has been retired since 2000 and resides in Munich .

Džaja published several works on the history, politics, culture and religion of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Fonts (selection)

• Katolici u Bosni i Zapadnoj Hercegovini na prijelazu iz 18th and 19th stoljeće. Zagreb 1971. (also dissertation)
• The “Bosnian Church” and the Islamization problem of Bosnia and Herzegovina in research after the Second World War (= Contributions to Knowledge of Southeast Europe and the Near East , Volume 28). Trofenik, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-87828-115-3 .
• Denomination and nationality of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Pre-emancipatory phase 1463-1804 (= Southeast European Work , No. 80). Oldenbourg, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-486-52571-9 . (also dissertation)
• Bosnia-Herzegovina in the Austro-Hungarian era (1878–1918). The Intelligentsia between tradition and ideology (= Southeast European Works , No. 93). Oldenbourg, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-486-56079-4 .
• Austro-Turcica 1541-1552. Diplomatic files of the Habsburg embassy trade with the Sublime Porte in the age of Suleyman the Magnificent (= Southeast European Works, Volume 95) arr. SM Džaja; ed. Karl Nehring. Oldenbourg, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-486-56167-7 .
• The Political Reality of Yugoslavism (1918–1991). With special consideration of Bosnia-Herzegovina (= Studies on Contemporary Studies in Southeastern Europe , Volume 37). Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-486-56659-8 .

literature

• Michael Paulwitz : Srećko Matko Džaja: Bosnia-Herzegovina in the Austro-Hungarian era (1878–1918). The intelligentsia between tradition and ideology (discussion). In: Gabriel Adriányi , Horst Glassl , Ekkehard Völkl (eds.): Ungarn-Jahrbuch , Volume 22, 1995/96, Verlag Ungarisches Institut, Munich 1996, pp. 332–333 ( PDF ).

Web links

• Lexicon entries on Srećko Matko Džaja:
• Hrvatska Enciklopedija (Croatian)
• Hrvatski biografski leksikon 3, Zagreb 1993 (Croatian)
• Srećko M. Džaja: Eseji, razgovori, polemike, prijevodi, Munich 2005 (Croatian)
• Literature by Srećko Matko Džaja in the Knjižnice grada Zagreba (Croatian)