On Thursday, 21 May 2026, the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) held its electoral assembly, at which our colleague, Professor Marko Trogrlić, PhD, was elected a full member of the Academy’s Department of Social Sciences. The news was published in an official announcement on the Academy’s website. The Overview of Candidates for New Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts includes the following profile of Professor Trogrlić:

“Marko TROGRLIĆ was born in Split in 1972. He is a full professor with tenure in modern and contemporary history at the Department of History of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split, and a priest of the Catholic Church. He completed his studies in history at the University of Vienna, where he also earned his doctorate in 2001 at the Institute for East European History.

At the Department of History of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split, he has continuously taught Croatian modern and contemporary history at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels. He has also taught in the doctoral programme in history at the University of Zadar, the doctoral programme at the Catholic Faculty of Theology of the University of Split, and the doctoral programme at the European University of Rome (Università Europea di Roma).

Professor Marko Trogrlić, PhD, has held numerous positions within academic institutions. Among other roles, he served for many years as Head of the Department of History, was a member of the University Senate, and served as Dean of the Faculty from 2009 to 2013. Since 2021, he has been Head of the Centre for Croatian, Venetian and Ottoman Studies at the University of Split.

He led the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports project Dalmatia and the Central Institutions in Vienna in the Nineteenth Century. Together with Dr Konrad Clewing of Regensburg, he also led the project Central State and Provincial Administration in Habsburg Dalmatia before 1848 (Zentralstaat und Provinzverwaltung im habsburgischen Dalmatien des Vormärz) in 2015–2016, funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science.

During the 2016/2017 academic year, he held a scholarship from the German Catholic Academic Exchange Service (KAAD) in Bonn to work on the project Church and State in Habsburg Dalmatia (1815–1855) (Kirche und Staat im habsburgischen Dalmatien (1815–1855)).

He has participated in numerous international scientific conferences in Croatia and abroad. From 2021 to 2025, he served as President of the Split Literary Circle. In 2022, he was elected a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, in its Philosophical-Historical Class (Philosophisch-Historische Klasse).

Together with Dr Stjepan Matković, he received the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Award for Scientific Achievement for the two-volume work Political Notes of Ante Trumbić, 1930–1938.

He is the author and editor of eight books and thirteen conference proceedings and edited volumes. Professor Trogrlić’s principal field of research is the history of Dalmatia from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, particularly its relationship with the central institutions of government in Vienna and with Ban’s Croatia.

His work draws on research conducted in archives and libraries in Zadar, Split, Trogir, Zagreb, Vienna, Rome and the Vatican. In addition to approximately fifty scholarly articles, he has authored three monographs on Austrian governors of Dalmatia, the historical synthesis Dalmatia and Istria in the Nineteenth Century (co-authored with N. Šetić), and the source collection From the Correspondence of Josip Frank with Vienna: 1907–1910.

Of particular importance is his comprehensive study in German on the South Slavs during the First World War, published as a chapter in the prestigious series The Habsburg Monarchy, 1848–1918 (Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848–1918).”

We congratulate Professor Trogrlić on this significant achievement!