MATIC BATIČ PhD, Assistant

Institute for Historical Studies

Phone: +386 5 663 77 00

Research area:

  • Historiography
  • Cultural history
  • History of the 19th and 20th centuries
  • History of the Northern Adriatic area in the interwar period
  • History of the German-speaking community in Gorizia region

 Biography:

Matic Batič studied history and German studies at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana between 2009 and 2015. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in 2012, and in 2015 he finished the master’s level of the dual-subject programme with a thesis on German journalism in Gorizia in the second half of the 19th century. In 2020, he successfully completed his doctoral studies at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Primorska, defending his doctoral dissertation titled Italianization of the cultural landscape in the Gorizia region from the end of World War I to the capitulation of Italy. He has also attended courses at the Humboldt University of Berlin (2017) and at the Forschungszentrum Deutsch in Mittel-, Ost- und Südosteuropa in Regensburg (2016).

From 2015 to 2019, he was employed at the Institute for Historical Studies at the Science and Research Centre Koper as a young researcher, and afterwards he has worked there as an assistant. His research targets various issues related to the history of the northern Adriatic area in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially in relation to the cultural history of the area, and he also works on various non-scientific projects.

So far, he has published 5 original scientific articles, 1 review scientific article, 1 scientific contribution in a monographic publication and several other non-scientific publications (reviews, professional articles, etc). He has presented the results of his research at numerous scientific conferences in Slovenia and abroad.

For his master’s thesis, Wir denken zwar deutsch, wir fühlen deutsch, werden es aber niemanden verargen, anderen Sinnes zu sein”: Görzer Wochenblatt (1867) und Görzer Zeitung (1868-1869), the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana awarded him the faculty France Prešeren Prize for research excellence in 2015.