Nadežda Čačinovič, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Nadežda Čačinovič

Croatian philosopher

Date of Birth: 01-Apr-1947

Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Profession: politician, philosopher

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Nadežda Cacinovic (born 1 April 1947) is a Croatian philosopher, sociologist, comparatist, feminist and Croatian-language book author.She was born to Slovene parents in Budapest in 1947 where her father Rudolf Cacinovic was serving as a military attache. She graduated in philosophy and comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana.
She subsequently studied at the University of Bonn from 1968 to 1970 where her father was serving as ambassador of Yugoslavia to West Germany.
She obtained a doctorate and became a professor at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, being employed there since 1976.She is also a member of an Advisory Board of a left-wing magazine Novi Plamen.
Cacinovic was also active in left wing politics, running for parliament for the Social Democratic Action of Croatia.Since 2009 she has been the president of the Croatian P.E.N.
Centre, member of International PEN.After Andrea Zlatar-Violic became Minister of Culture in the Croatian government, Cacinovic was selected by Zlatar-Violic to take her place in the ministry's Committee for Books, Publication, and Bookselling Activities on 4 July 2012.In 2017, Cacinovic has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.