Kristijan Kuhar, PhD, junior researcher

Old Church Slavonic Institute
Demetrova 11, Zagreb
+385 (0)1 2220018
kristijan.kuhar@stin.hr

Areas of research interest

• History of liturgy – the Middle Ages
• History of Slavonic liturgy
• Special characteristics of Slavonic liturgical tradition; indigenousness of euchological patterns
• Liturgical veneration of saints in Croatian liturgical Glagolitic books

Professional background

• 2011 – to date: junior researcher, Old Church Slavonic Institute

Academic background

• 2002 – 2007: Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb
• 2011: postgraduate doctoral study programme of medieval studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
• Approved topic of doctoral dissertation: “Povijesno liturgijske posebnosti euholoških obrazaca ranog razdoblja slavenske liturgije (10. – 14.st.) s osvrtom na predslovlja”; mentors: Prof.  Mateo Žagar, PhD and Prof. Ante Crnčević, PhD

Research projects

• 2011 – 2013: Glagolitic palaeography – Old Church Slavonic Institute (project leader: Marica Čunčić, PhD)

Activities

• Public lectures on the Glagolitic tradition of Tertiary Franciscans
• Lectures on Glagolitic archives of Tertiary Franciscans

Popularisation of science

• Regular lectures on the Glagolitic script and Croatian Glagolitism and tertiary Glagolitic tradition for pupils of primary and secondary schools and students at the Monastery of St. Francis Xavier, Zagreb

Membership

• Central Croatian Cultural and Publishing Society
• ICARUS4All, Austria

Editorial Boards

• Editor of Vjesnik franjevaca trećoredaca journal (ISSN 1332-7658) (2011 – 2015)
• Member of the Management Board of the Province of Croatian Tertiary Franciscan Glagolitics (mandate from 2013 to 2015)
• Provincial coordinator of the Commision for Culture and Heritage; secretary of the Province (2011 – 2015)
• Secretary of the Editorial Board of Slovo journal of the Old Church Slavonic Institute (No. 65)