NAUČNO DJELO MARKA ŠUNJIĆA - POVODOM 15 GODINA OD SMRTI
THE SCIENTIFIC WORK OF MARKO ŠUNJIĆ – ON THE OCCASION OF THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH

Summary/Abstract: Marko Šunjić belongs to a line of the most important individuals who studied the history of Bosnia in the Middle Ages. He conducted archival research in Venice and the archives of Dalmatian towns thereby becoming one of the best experts in the sources they keep. Apart from being a historian, he also performed other responsible political functions in the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and he was the ambassador of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia in Venezuela. He was born in Rodoč near Mostar, on the 15th of February 1927. He graduated history at the Sarajevo Faculty of Philosophy in 1955, which was followed by a successful university career. In 1964 he defended his doctoral thesis The establishment and organization of Venetian rule in Dalmatia in the 15th century. He also authored two books and a great number of articles about the history of medieval Bosnia and Dalmatia in the 14th and 15th century, and their relations with Venice. The focus of his attention was economical history which developed on the relation of Dalmatian harbour towns and Bosnia. A significant field of his research was the European early Middle Ages. To it he devoted a voluminous book The Peoples and States of the Early Middle Ages, as well as several smaller studies. Marko Šunjić is also known for the edited book Chrestomathy of Sources for the General History of the Middle Ages, which contains translated essential texts of medieval authors. He also edited an unpublished collection of sources for the history of medieval Bosnia. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and he performed the duty of the director of the Centre for Balcanological Studies. He died in Sarajevo on the 30th of March 1998.

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