Vesna Girardi-Jurkić

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Vesna Girardi-Jurkić
Minister of Education, Culture
and Sports
In office
15 April 1992 – 3 April 1993
Prime MinisterFranjo Gregurić (1992)
Hrvoje Šarinić (1992–1993)
Preceded byVlatko Pavletić
Minister of Culture and Education
In office
3 April 1993 – 18 October 1994
Prime MinisterNikica Valentić
Succeeded byZlatko Vitez
Personal details
Born(1944-01-15)15 January 1944
Zagreb, Independent State of Croatia
Died25 August 2012(2012-08-25) (aged 68)
Pula, Croatia
Political partyNone (formerly Croatian Democratic Union and Democratic Centre)
Alma materUniversity of Zagreb
(Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences)

Vesna Girardi-Jurkić (15 January 1944 – 25 August 2012) was a 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

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.[2] She authored several books about the subject.

References

  1. ^ "Vesna Girardi-Jurkić" (in Croatian). Muzejski dokumentacijski centar. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
  2. ^ a b c GIRARDI JURKIĆ, VESNA. "HistricaNova" (in Croatian). HistricaNova. Archived from the original on 11 July 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2010.

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Political offices
Preceded by 0
Minister of Education, Culture and Sports
0

1992–1994
Succeeded byas Minister of Culture
Succeeded byas Minister of Education and Sports