• 07.03.2024.
• Zagreb, HR

Academic Ivan Markešić passed away

Yesterday, March 6th, after a long and serious illness, at the age of 71, a sociologist, lexicographer and politician, our longtime collaborator on numerous publications – academic Ivan Markešić, passed away.

In his scientific work, he mainly dealt with the sociology of religion: religion in contemporary globalization and postmodern processes; religion as a factor of social changes, dialogue, tolerance, but also violence and terrorism; the socio-religious situation in the Republic of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina; the social meaning of death; funerals, cemeteries, tombstones and the identity of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He published six books, over 40 scientific papers, dozens of review and expert papers and book reviews, and translated from Croatian to German and vice versa.

Our author Tijana Trako Poljak said her goodbyes to academic Markešić with these words:
„Such great people deserve much more than a factual description of their lives, but until there is an in memoriam that will more faithfully show his life's struggle for man to be man to man, here is at least a biographical one. With academic Markešić, we lost another one of those thinkers with whom it was not important in the conversation whether you agreed, but the goal was always the improvement of society and all ideas that go in that direction. A realist about what man is like at his worst, and always an eternal optimist that a better society is possible, he was a wonderful interlocutor, colleague and I'm honored to say friend – dear professor, we continue to share our common hope for the possibility of a better, braver new world.“

Rest in peace!