Životni put i znanstveni doprinos don Mihe Barade
Life and career of don Miho Barada

Summary/Abstract: In the tumultuous twentieth century, Croatian academia was marked by individuals who selflessly and systematically, with patriotic passion, dedicated themselves to the study of national history and tirelessly conveyed their knowledge to university students. Among them, Miho Barada (16 March 1889-9 July 1957) stands out as a churchman and an academic who devoted his life to spirituality and to historical research. He understood that the earliest Croatian history was a poorly documented and researched period. Barada was of Dalmatian origin, born during the Austrian administration in late nineteenth century in the family Giljanović, known as Barada. He was educated in Split, Zadar and Zagreb, and then in Rome, and this contributed to his maturation as an academic, and taught him how to think critically. He was no longer interested in facts only, but also in causes and consequences, the totality of events in a particular context, and this made possible for him to take a different, critical approach towards everything. In 1937, he was appointed full professor of church history at the School of Theology in Zagreb. He was also adjunct professor of auxiliary historical disciplines at the School of Arts and Humanities in Zagreb. When his teacher, Professor Ferdo Šišić, died in 1940, Barada got the opportunity to take over his Chair of National History and become a full-time university professor and researcher. In 1948, he became a corresponding member of JAZU (today HAZU). With his way of thinking, his approach to the archival sources and well-developed methods of analysis, writing and publication, he greatly contributed to and lefta major trace in Croatian historiography. His writings are essential sources for scholars of medieval history and they are regarded as foundations of Croatian medieval history. Barada reached new and clearer conclusions that did not always conform to established views, so he often engaged in polemics to defend his positions.With regard to his scholarly research, which for the most part focused on the Middle Ages, Barada was especially interested in Croatian nobility, feudal socioeconomic system, topography and old statutes and books of laws. His impeccable knowledge of medieval palaeography and Latin made his work easier. His bibliography includes original research articles, reviews, edited volumes and newspaper articles.

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