Miho Barada kao nastavnik pomoćnih povijesnih znanosti i profesor hrvatske povijesti - Galović, Tomislav (Array, 2011)
Croatian early medieval history and ancillary historical disciplines occupy important places within the academic opus of Miho Barada (18891957). Ever since his student days at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb, and especially following his education and specialization at the Vatican School of Palaeography, Diplomatics and Archivistics (Scuola Vaticana di Paleografia, Diplomatica e Archivistica), Barada had been highly interested in Latin palaeography, diplomatics and chronology. As early as 1933, he was appointed adjunct lecturer in auxiliary historical disciplines at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Zagreb. He remained at that position until 1940 and continued to teach until 1943. In this article I will discuss the career of Miho Barada at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb, first as a teacher of auxiliary historical disciplines and then as professor of Croatian medieval history, from 1938 until his retirement in 1954. Using documents from the Archives of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences I will discuss the courses that Barada taught, his time-table, but also his academic research and publishing career. I will also briefly reflect upon his contribution to the organization and realization of courses and lectures on Latin palaeography. These courses took place at the Historical Institute of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (today Division for History of the Institute of Historical and Social Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts). In conclusion, it may be said that if there were not for Miho Barada and other professors and academics of his calibre, Croatian early Middle Ages would still seem a rather ‘dark’ period.