id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9714 Ivo Banac - Wikipedia .html text/html 1863 212 69 Ivo Banac (Croatian pronunciation: [iːʋo baːnats]; 1 March 1947 – 30 June 2020) was a Croatian-American historian, a professor of European history at Yale University and a politician of the former Liberal Party in Croatia, known as the Great Bard of Croatian historiography.[4] As of 2012[update], Banac was a consultant for the Bosnian Institute.[5] He died after a serious illness at age 73.[6] During his stay in the United States, Banac regularly visited Yugoslavia.[7] While visiting Zagreb in 1971, he met Vlado Gotovac and Franjo Tuđman, who would both become major Croatian political figures after the fall of communism.[7] Banac remained in close contact with Gotovac until his death in 2000;[7] on the other hand, he reportedly didn't think highly of Tuđman, describing him as a person who could not tolerate dissent.[7] Nonetheless, Banac organized Tuđman's lecture at Yale University in 1990.[7] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9714.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9714.txt