Zdenko Vinski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Croatian archaeologist
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Place of Birth: Zagreb, Zagreb County, Croatia
About Zdenko Vinski
- Zdenko Vinski (3 May 1913 – 13 October 1996) was a notable Croatian archaeologist. Vinski was born to a Jewish family on 3 May 1913 in Zagreb where he finished elementary and high school.
- His father was Oton Vinski, an influential Croatian banker, and his mother was Å tefanija Alexander, who came from the Zagreb Alexander family.
- Vinski graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Vienna.
- In 1937, he received his postgraduate diploma which he translated in 1938 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.
- Vinski was a lecturer at the department of General and National Medieval Archeology at the University of Zagreb.
- His works are considered essential in establishing the post-World War II apparatus for Croatia's archaeology.
- It was Vinski who dated the Bijelo Brdo culture ("White Hill") site 1 on the River Drava east of Osijek as 7th Century.
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