Biography of HRVOJKA MIHANOVIĆ - SALOPEK
Hrvojka Mihanović - Salopek graduated in Croatian literature and language at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb in 1984. She received her master's degree from the Faculty of Philosophy in 1990. The title of her thesis was Hrvatska himnodija od srednjeg vijeka do preporoda (Croatian Hymnody from the Middle Ages to the National Revival), and she obtained her doctorate in 1998 and her dissertation title was Hrvatska crkvena himnodija 19. stoljeća (Croatian Church Hymnody of the 19th century).
She has been working since 1986 in the Department of Literature, Institute for the History of Croatian Literature, Theater and Music of the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts. Starting as a research associate in 2002, she became a senior research associate in 2008, a scientific advisor in 2013 and was promoted to a permanent scientific advisor in 2018. She lectured part-time at the Summer School of Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb in 2008/09. She taught part-time a course of Hymnology at the Catholic Faculty of Theology of the University of Zagreb in the academic year 2009/10. She also lectured part-time at the doctoral study of Faculty of Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb in 2017. In 1997, she was elected an honorary, corresponding member of the International Mariological Academy in Rome (Pontificia Academia Mariana Internationalis).
She participated in several scientific projects; (from 1986 to 1989 on a scientific project) Sabrana djela Ante Kovačića (Collected Works of Ante Kovačić); (from 1991 to 2001 on a scientific project) Sabrana djela Milana Begovića (Collected Works of Milan Begović) in 24 volumes, and at present she is an associate on the scientific project of the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts, Hrvatski književni povjesničari (Croatian Literary Historians). From 2007 to 2019, she led the international bilateral project The Contribution of Croatian and Bulgarian Intellectuals to the Spiritual Diversity of Europe, a collaboration between the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts (HAZU) and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAN). She was the leader of international scientific conferences within the event Dvigrad - International Festival of Early Music in Istria under the auspices of the President of the Republic of Croatia.
She the author of 10 scholarly books:
- Hrvatska himnodija (od srednjeg vijeka do preporoda), (Croatian Hymnody from the Middle Ages to the National Revival), Književni krug, Split, 1992 (167 pages) ISBN 86-7397-115-2;
- Hrvatska crkvena himnodija 19. stoljeća (Croatian Church Hymnody of the 19th Century), "ALFA", Edition 'Scientiae et Artes', Zagreb, 2000. (339 pages) ISBN 953-168-235- 6;
- Tihi pregaoci visovačko-skradinskog područja (Doprinos franjevaca hrvatskoj himnodiji i duhovnoj književnosti), (Quiet Contributors of the Visovac-Skradin Region - Contribution of the Franciscans to Croatian Hymnody and Spiritual Literature), (izdanje Franjevačke provincije Presvetoga Otkupitelja, Biblioteka "Ravnokotarski Cvit", knj. br.15, Split, 2004. (96 pages) ISBN 953-6012-28-6;
- Iz duhovnog perivoja (From the Spiritual Park), Biblioteka "Posebna izdanja", Ljevak, Zagreb, 2006. (293 str.) ISBN 953-178-769-7
- Doprinos Petra Kanavelića hrvatskoj pasionskoj baštini (u suautorstvu s dr. Vinicijem Lupisom), (Contribution of Petar Kanavelić to the Croatian Passion Heritage, (in co-authorship with Dr. Vinicije Lupis), Ogranak Matice hrvatske, Split, 2009 (303 pages) ISBN 978-953-6159-94-5;
- Željezni duh. Doprinos Jakete Palmotića Dionorića hrvatskoj književnoj baštini (u suautorstvu s dr. Vinicijem Lupisom). (Iron Spirit. The contribution of Jaketa Palmotić Dionorić to the Croatian literary heritage), (in co-authorship with Dr. Vinicije Lupis), Ivo Pilar Institute in Dubrovnik, Zagreb - Dubrovnik, 2010 (474 ââpages) ISBN 978-953-6666-67-6,
- U ogledalu kritike (In the Mirror of Criticism), "Association Prosoli", Zagreb, 2012/13. (263 pages) ISBN 978-953-56249-3-6
- Fr Petar Knežević - Gospin pjesnik i književnik (u suatorstvu s dr. sc. Hanom Breko-Kustura i fra Mirkom Marićem). (Fr. Petar Knežević - Our Lady's Poet and Writer, (in collaboration with Dr. Hana Breko-Kustura and Fr. Mirko Marić); Ogranak Matice hrvatske u Sinju, Sinj, 2017 (451 pages) ISBN 978-953-7440-22-0
- U ogledalu znanstvenih prosudbi (In the Mirror of Scientific Judgments), Biakova, Zagreb, 2018 (p. 381) ISBN 978-953-8136-33-7
- Kristalni plov (The Crystal Float), Umjetnička djelatnost Branke Beretovac, prvakinje HNK u Zagrebu (Artistic activity of Branka Beretovac, the leading lady of the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb), Biakova d.o.o., Zagreb, 2019 (310 pages) ISBN 978-953-8136-90-0
She has also prepared 37 books of selected works, monographs and collections of papers. She has published 112 original scientific papers in foreign and domestic journals and proceedings and 224 professional papers. She is included in the lexicon Who is Who in Croatia, 1993. p. 480 and in the Literary Encyclopedia of the Lexicographic Institute, vol. III, p. 79.
She speaks English and has given scientific lectures at several international conferences: at the Mariological Congress in Kevelaer (Germany) in 1987; in Huelva, near Seville (Spain) in 1992; in Czestochowa-Poland, 1996; in Rome, 2000 and 2004; in Lourdes (France, 2008), at the International Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in Boston, USA, 1996; at the International Conference of the Department of Slavic Philology of the University of Lorand Eotvoes in Budapest in 2003; at the Slavic Conference in Pecs in 2002; at the International Bulgarian-Croatian Conference in Sofia in 2008, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017; at the International Symposium in Čiprovci, 2009; at the International Symposium on Ivo Frangeš in Trieste, 2012; at the International Symposium in Petrovaradin and Novi Sad, 2015.
She often participates in numerous domestic, international Slavic and Croatian scientific conferences, eg: "Days of the Hvar Theater"; Jesuits in the religious, scientific andcultural life of Croatians; Reception of Milan Begović; Religious themes in literature; Croatian literary baroque and Slavonian literature of the 18th century; Literature in Osijek and about Osijek from the beginning to the present day; Conference on Andrija Kačić - Miošić, Strossmayer Days, "Croatian Literary Historians" (scientific conferences on Franjo Fancev, Tomo Matić, Albert Haler, Branko Drechsler Vodnik, Ivan Milčetić, Milan Rešetar, Šime Ljubić, Ivo Frangeš, Antun Barac, Đuro Šurmin, Milorad Medina, Slavko Ježić and others. She also participated at symposia on Tomo Babić, Petar Knežević, Josip Banovac, Petar Bačić, Ivan Ančić, Emerik Pavić, "Nazor Days" (Postire, 1996 and 1999), at the International Scientific Interdisciplinary Symposium Croatian folklore and ethnographic heritage in the light of Dubrovnik's world and tourism presence, in 2012 and 2013; at the international conference "Passion Heritage" in Subotica in 2013; and at professional gatherings "Days of Josip and Ivan Kozarac" in Vinkovci, "Đakovo Meetings of Croatian Literary Critics", literary meetings "Good Morning Sea" (Podstrana near Split), "Kačić Days", "Croatia Rediviva" (Brač), "Struga Literary evenings" (Macedonia), etc.
She was a part-time associate of the Croatian Radio Television (HRTV) of its Science and Education Program, where she wrote several shows and literary portraits as a screenwriter: (I bow to the queen - Croatian Christmas songs; In death we dream - Croatian songs on death through the history, Krka upstream - literary portrait of Nikola Pulić, The Noble Thread of a Cobweb - Literary Portrait of Višnja Stahuljak and others. Since 2005, she has been the screenwriter, director and leader of the project "Digital Recording of Croatian Mariological Heritage" under the auspices of the Committee on Education, Science and Culture of the Croatian Parliament and the Council of Culture of the Croatian Bishops' Conference, where she realized 12 scholarly educational films on the subject of multidisciplinary presentation of the veneration of the Marian heritage in Croatian dioceses and counties:
- Stella Maris of Croatian Zagorje (spiritual poetry about the Mother of God),
- Stella maris of the Northern Adriatic (spiritual poetry about the Mother of God),
- Dubrovnik's Great Protectress (Marian heritage of Dubrovnik)
- Stella Maris of Dalmatia, part 1 (Marian heritage in the Split-Makarska archdiocese),
- Stella Maris of Dalmatia, part 2 (Marian heritage in the Šibenik diocese)
- Stella Maris Dalmatia, part 3 (Marian heritage in the Zadar archdiocese),
- Stella Mmaris of Slavonian cereal fields (Marian heritage in the Đakovo-Osijek archdiocese),
- Stella maris of the southern islands (Marian heritage of the former Korčula diocese),
- Sisak Mother of Mercy (Marian heritage of the Sisak diocese),
- Varaždin Regina angelorum (Marian heritage of the Varaždin diocese),
- Lika mother of consolation (Marianheritage of the Gospić-Senj diocese),
- Our Lady of the Stone Gate in Zagreb (Marian heritage of Zagreb).
She also directed the film Sinfonia croatica et christiana about the work of academic painter Josip Botteri Dini.
As an external collaborator, she prepared several professional units for the Croatian Biographical Lexicon, for the General Encyclopedia and Literary Encyclopedia of the Lexicographic Institute "Miroslav Krleža", and for the Lexicon of Croatian Writers, Školska knjiga, 2000. She accompanied with a foreword more than 60 books of prescribed readings and newly published fiction for the following publishing houses: "Ljevak", "Školska knjiga", "Mladost", "Znanje", "ABC - naklada", "Mozaik", "Laus", "Albatros", "Nova stvarnost", "Neretva"; "Alfa", Naklada Bošković, "Privlačica d.o.o.", "Panonius", Naklada Haid, "Biakova d.o.o.", etc. For the publishing house "Mozaik" she prepared two manuals for teachers for the series "Zlatna lađa" (reading works by Ivana Brlić Mažuranić and Vladimir Nazor).
From 1988 to 1998 she was a member of the editorial board of the magazine Umjetnost i dijete (Art and the Child), and since 2003 she has been an associate and occasional editor of the professional magazine Musica sacra in Zagreb. Since 2011 she has been a member of the Council of the Školski vjesnik (School Gazette), a pedagogical journal of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Split. From 1995 until today, she has been a regular member of the National Committee for Children's Books of the Republic of Croatia. Since 2018, she has been a member of the editorial board for anthologies published by the Pasionska baština (Passion Heritage Association). He participates as a reviewer and associate member in the work of the international editorial board of the Bulgarian scientific journal Bulgarian Historical Review, Institute for Historical Studies (BAN) in Sofia.
She is a member of the Društvo hrvatskih književnika (Society of Croatian Writers), a member of the Society of Croatian Women Intellectuals (which is a full member of the International Federation of University Women based in Geneva). Since 2006 she has been an honorary member of Matica slovačka (Slovak Heritage Foundation) in Zagreb. She is a full member of the Croatian Mariological Institute at the Catholic Faculty of Theology at the
University of Zagreb. Since 2007 he has been participating as a promoter and co-organizer in the work of literary and cultural forums of the Croatian Pan-European Union in Zagreb. Along with literature, she completed her organ studies in 1984 at the Institute of Church Music at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Zagreb. She has been a member of the Croatian Association of Music Artists since 1986. She has distinguished herself with a number of notable concerts at home as well as abroad (Austria, France, Hungary, Germany, Spain, Poland, the Czech Republic, Argentina and the USA). She made four CD recordings published by Croatian Radio Television and Musica sacra d.o.o.
She won the bronze medal "Mila Gojsalić" of the Poljica Association in 2012; "Petar Kanavelić" Award for 2016 (Rijeka Writers' Association and Korčula City Government); Silver Charters - Matica hrvatska (Croatian Heritage Foundation) awards Zagreb, 2009 and 2018 for literature; She received the "Special Recognition for Publishing Enterprise" for Selected Works of Miroslav S. Mađer, I. - IV., at the Days of Croatian Books and Words of the Institute for the Culture of Vojvodina Croats in Subotica 2019. In 2019, she was awarded the Order of the Croatian Interlace for the promotion of Croatian culture.
Since 2023, she serves as the president of the Croatian Writers' Society (Društvo hrvatskih književnika, abbreviated DHK), Zagreb.
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