Trogrlić Marko, F.C.A.
Date of birth:
- 05/19/1972
Place of birth:
- Zadvarje
Adresses:
- Department of History, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Poljička 35, 21000 Split
E-mails:
Trogrlić Marko, F.C.A.
Academic titles:
- Doctor of Science
Institutions:
- full professor with tenure – Department of History, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split
- corresponding member – Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna (04/22/2022-…)
Membership in Academy:
- full member – Department of Social Sciences (5/21/2026 – …)
Curriculum Vitae
Marko Trogrlić was born on 19 May 1972 in Zadvarje, Croatia. He completed his primary and secondary education in Split. He is a Full Professor with tenure in Modern and Contemporary History at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split.
He graduated in History from the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Vienna. In 2001, at the Institute for East European History, University of Vienna, he passed the doctoral examination (Rigorosum) and defended his doctoral dissertation entitled Ivan Skakoc (1752–1837). Leben und Werk.
In 2002, he was appointed Assistant Professor in the field of Humanities, discipline of History, specialization in Croatian History, at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zadar. Since 1 October 2006, he has been employed at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008, to Full Professor in 2014, and in 2019 to the permanent academic rank of Full Professor of Croatian and World Modern and Contemporary History.
He completed his studies in Christian Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Society of Jesus in Zagreb (1997) and his studies in Theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome (2002). On 5 January 2019, he was ordained a Catholic priest and has since been engaged in pastoral ministry in Split.
During the academic years 2008/2009 and 2013/2014–2014/2015, he served as Head of the Department of History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split. From 1 October 2009 to 30 September 2013, he served two terms as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split and was a member of the Senate of the University of Split. He also served as President of the Conference of Deans of Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Republic of Croatia. From 2019 to 2023, he was a member of the University of Split Committee for the Selection of Emeritus Professors. Since July 2021, he has served as Head of the Centre for Croatian, Venetian and Ottoman Studies at the University of Split. Since 1 October 2025, he has been a member of the Senate of the University of Split as a representative of Full Professors in the field of Humanities.
At the European University of Rome (Università Europea di Roma), he was a member of the board of the doctoral programme Mutamento, culture, identità e percezioni in area euromediterranea tra Tardo Antico e Età Contemporanea (2013/2014–2015/2016). During the winter semester of the 2015/2016 academic year, he also taught as a Visiting Professor in the course Storia Contemporanea at the same University.
At the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split, he continuously teaches courses in Croatian Modern and Contemporary History at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels. He has also taught in the doctoral programmes in History at the University of Zadar, at the Catholic Faculty of Theology of the University of Split, and at the European University of Rome (Università Europea di Roma).
He was Principal Investigator of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports project Dalmatia and the Viennese Central Institutions in the Nineteenth Century. In 2015/2016, together with Dr Konrad Clewing (Leibnitz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung Regensburg), he co-led the project Zentralstaat und Provinzverwaltung im habsburgischen Dalmatien des Vormärz, funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Science.
He participated as a researcher in Croatian Science Foundation projects, including:
- Adriatic Geopolitics in Modernity, 1493–1918 (Principal Investigator: Josip Vrandečić);
- The Collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy and Transformations in the Eastern Adriatic Area (1917–1923) (Principal Investigator: Ante Bralić);
- Mapping Parliamentary Elections in Croatia, 1848–1918 (Principal Investigator: Stjepan Matković).
He is currently a researcher on the following projects:
- Historiographical Contributions to the Modern History of Dalmatia (institutional project of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split; Principal Investigator: Josip Vrandečić);
- Mediterranean – Croatia – Identity: Historical and Cultural Interactions (competitive institutional project of the University of Split, IP-UNIST-14; Principal Investigator: Nikša Varezić).
He was a recipient of a scholarship from the German Catholic Academic Exchange Service (KAAD, Bonn) from 1 October 2016 to 1 July 2017 for research on the project Kirche und Staat im habsburgischen Dalmatien (1815–1855). He has participated in numerous international scholarly conferences in Croatia and abroad and has served on the organizing committees of the Congress of Croatian Historians and several scholarly conferences held in Croatia.
From December 2021 to December 2025, he served as President of the Literary Circle of Split (Književni krug Split), and since 2026 he has served as its Vice-President. He is a member of Matica hrvatska. He is also a member of the Committee for Historiography Awards of the Croatian National Committee of Historical Sciences and of the Croatian Historical Association (Društvo za hrvatsku povjesnicu), the umbrella organization of Croatian historians.
He is a member of several Croatian and international professional associations, including Društvo za hrvatsku povjesnicu, the Croatian National Committee of Historical Sciences (HNOPZ), Gesellschaft für Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts (Graz), Römisches Institut der Görres-Gesellschaft (Rome), and Gesellschaft für Konziliengeschichtsforschung (Augsburg). He was also a member of the Kommission für südosteuropäische Geschichte (Pro Oriente Foundation, Vienna, Austria).
He is a member of the editorial board of the Literary Circle of Split’s series Biblioteka Knjiga Mediterana. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Split), as a member of the editorial board of Historijski zbornik, and of Vjesnik dalmatinskih arhiva. He is a contributor to the Hrvatski biografski leksikon and the Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon (Vienna).
For his scholarly work, he has received the following awards and recognitions:
- The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Award for the Highest Scientific and Artistic Achievements in the Republic of Croatia for 2019 in the field of Social Sciences;
- The University of Split Plaque for Scientific Achievement (2019);
- The City of Split Collective Award (together with Dr Stjepan Matković) for the two-volume work Političke bilješke Ante Trumbića 1930–1938 (Split–Zagreb, 2019).
On 22 April 2022, he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Philosophical-Historical Class (philosophisch-historische Klasse).
On 21 May 2026, he was elected a Full Member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU).
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