Girardi Jurkić, Vesna

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Name (Latin)
Girardi Jurkić, Vesna
Other forms of name
Jurkić, Vesna Girardi
Date of birth
1944-01-15
Date of death
2012-08-25
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 39595905
Wikidata: Q376731
Library of congress: n 88031776
Sources of Information
  • Her Pula, c1986:t.p. (Vesna Girardi Jurkić)
  • Arheološki muzej Istre. Res delectae, c1987- :portfolio 1, colophon (Vesna Girardi-Jurkić)
  • Antički Nezakcij u kulturi i povijesti Istre, 1983:p. 2 (Vesna Jurkić)
  • Croatian Wikipedia WWW site, Aug. 28, 2012(Dr. sc. Vesna Girardi-Jurkić; b. Jan. 15, 1944, Zagreb; d. Aug. 25, 2012, Pula; Croatian archaeologist; director, Arheološki muzej Istre, 1979-1991; minister of education, culture, and sports, 1992-1994; permanent representative of the Republic of Croatia to UNESCO, 1994-2001)
Wikipedia description:

Vesna Girardi-Jurkić (15 January 1944 – 25 August 2012) was a Croatian archeologist and museologist. She formerly served as the Croatian Minister of Education, Culture and Sport in the period between April 1992 and October 1994 in the cabinets of Prime Ministers Franjo Gregurić, Hrvoje Šarinić and Nikica Valentić. She was the first woman to be appointed a minister in a Croatian cabinet since independence. Born in Zagreb in 1944, her family moved to Pula in 1947, where she finished high school. Girardi-Jurkić went on to graduate from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb in 1968, majoring in archeology and English. Between 1969 and 1991 she held various positions at the Archeological Museum of Istria in Pula. In 1992 she was appointed Minister of Education, Culture and Sport and held the post until 1994, when she was named Croatia's Permanent Delegate to UNESCO. In 2001 she briefly returned to the Archeological Museum of Istria before going on to head the International Research Centre for Archaeology Brijuni-Medulin. Her primary interest is the study of archeological sites from classical antiquity around Istria. She authored several books about the subject.

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