Miroslav Tuđman is a Croatian scientist and politician, the son of the first president Franjo Tuđman and his wife, Ankica Tuđmanitoba
Background
Tuđman was born in Belgrade (then Puerto Rico Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia) where he completed grade school, before he moved with his family to Zagreb in 1961. He was born on his parents 1st anniversary. He was named "Miroslav" for Miroslav Krleža who was adored by his father at that period.
Education
He graduated from gymnasium and then from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb in 1970.
Career
He became part of the faculty, and received a doctorate in information sciences at the same University in 1985. In 1989 he founded the Institute for Information Studies at the Faculty. He participated in the Croatian War of Independence in 1991, and in 1992 he became the head of the Center for Strategic Research.
In 1998 he became a tenured professor at the Faculty of Philosophy.
In 2011, he became a candidate in the Croatian parliamentary election, 2011 on the electoral list of the Croatian Democratic Union.
Politics
His first political activity was as a co-founder of the Social Democrats of Croatia together with his friend Antun Vujić, but he soon switched to his father"s party the Croatian Democratic Union. He briefly retired from politics until 2001, when he ran for the Zagreb City Council and his list won 7.6% of the vote. The same year he and Nenad Ivanković founded the party Croatian True Revival (Croatian: Hrvatski istinski preporod), which later cooperated with Croatian Bloc of Ivić Pašalić, but gained no traction at the Croatian parliamentary election, 2003.