Trpimir Macan (born 20 August 1935) is a Croatian historian and lexicographer.
He was born in Dubrovnik. He studied history in Zagreb and Sarajevo, where he graduated in 1959. In 1971 he received his Ph.D. in Zagreb with a thesis Life and work of Miho Klaià(à ½ivot i rad Miha KlaiÃÂa), which was in 1980 published as a monograph titled Miho KlaiÃÂ. He worked in MetkoviÃÂ, whence he relocated to Zagreb, and since 1965 he has been working at the Miroslav Krleà ¾a Lexicographical Institute as an editor of historical encyclopedias and lexicons. He is the serving Editor-In-Chief of the Croatian Biographical Lexicon (since 1990) and an anthology Biobibliographica (since 2003).
His scientific research deals with the history of Dubrovnik and Neretva region. He has authored a number of historical contributions to Croatian history and politicians of the 19th and 20th century (Miho KlaiÃÂ, Ivan KukuljeviàSakcinski, Petar PreradoviÃÂ, Stjepan RadiÃÂ). He edited Povijest Hrvata od najstarijih vremena do svrà ¡etka XIX stoljeÃÂa ("History of Croats from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century"; multiple editions since 1972) by Vjekoslav KlaiÃÂ, Pregled povijesti hrvatskog naroda ("Review of Croatian history"; 1975) by Ferdo à  ià ¡iÃÂ, SjeÃÂanja ("Memoirs"; 1995) by Zvonimir Vrkljan, Moj à ¾ivotopis (" My biography"; 1996) by Tias Mortigjija, and an anthology Hrvatska i odrà ¾ivi razvitak: humane i odgojne vrednote ("Croatia and sustainable development: the human and educational values"; 1999).
His seminal work Povijest hrvatskog naroda ("The History of the Croatian people"; 1971) was destroyed after the fall of the Croatian Spring, and was republished in a revised edition in 1992. His other works are:
In 2005 he published a book of poetry Oskoruà ¡e.