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Zrinka Blažević was born on March 25, 1972 in Zagreb, Croatia.
From 1991 to 1996 she attended history and Latin language program at the Faculty of Philosophy (University of Zagreb) and graduated History on the topic "Croatia rediviva by Pavao Ritter Vitezović in the contemporary European context". In the same year she enrolled post-graduate studies in history at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb.
In 2001 she won a master's degree in history on the topic "Ideological conception in the postkarlowitz cycle of writings of Pavao Ritter Vitezovic (1652.-1713.)".
In 2005 she won a PhD in history at the History Department, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb. The topic of the PhD thesis was "Illyrian ideologeme in the 17th century: uses, functions, meanings".
From 1997 to 2001 she worked as an assistant at the Croatian Institute for History in the project "Latin Historiography in Croatia". Now she is working as an assistant at the Institute of Croatian History (History Department, Faculty of Philosophy) on the project "Triplex Confinium", led by Prof. Drago Roksandić.
From 2001, she works as a secretary of the Centre for Comparative Historical Studies (now Centre for Comparative Historical and Intercultural Studies) at the Institute for Croatian History
Her main field of interest is intellectual history, especially analysis of early modern historiographic discourses and ideological concepts, theory of history, cultural history, historical anthropology, gender history, eco-history, history of religion. She also translates Latin poetry and historiographic prose into Croatian.