Catherine Horel has undertaken a comparative analysis of the societal, ethnic, and cultural diversity in the last decades of the Habsburg Monarchy as represented in twelve cities: Arad, Bratislava, ...Brno, Chernivtsi, Lviv, Oradea, Rijeka, Sarajevo, Subotica, Timișoara, Trieste, and Zagreb. By purposely selecting these cities, the author aims to counter the disproportionate attention that the largest cities in the empire receive. With a focus on the aspects of everyday life faced by the city inhabitants (associations, schools, economy, and municipal politics) the book avoids any idealization of the monarchy as a paradise of peaceful multiculturalism, and also avoids exaggerating conflicts. The author claims that the world of the Habsburg cities was a dynamic space where many models coexisted and created vitality, emulation, and conflict. Modernization brought about the dissolution of old structures, but also mobility, the progress of education, the explosion of associative life, and constantly growing cultural offerings.
Rođen u Istri, tada dijelu prostrane Austro-Ugarske Monarhije, Fran Mandić (1851. – 1924.) završio je hrvatsku gimnaziju u Rijeci, a medicinu u Grazu i Pragu. Nakon promocije čitavu je liječničku ...karijeru proveo u Trstu, u njegovo doba glavnom gradu Austrijskog primorja. Nakon rada u bolnici, otvorio je vlastitu ordinaciju, a bio je i zdravstveni savjetnik Državnih željeznica. Čitavog je života, još od studentskih dana, sudjelovao u nastojanjima za postizanje jednakopravnosti hrvatskog naroda u Istri. Uvjeren u važnost obrazovanja, ulagao je svoje vrijeme i novac u otvaranje što većeg broja škola u Istri. Za zasluge u radu odlikovao ga je kralj, imenovan je počasnim građaninom Opatije, no najveće priznanje bio mu je ugled koji je uživao među pacijentima i članovima njihovih obitelji.
Born in Istria, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Fran Mandić (1851-1924) finished a Croatian grammar school in Rijeka and studied medicine in Graz, Austria and in Prague, Bohemia. After graduation, he settled in Trieste, a major Austrian port, where he spent his entire career. After a period in the State Hospital in Trieste, Mandić ran his own practice and held a position of medical adviser of the Austrian State Railway in Istria. Since his student days, he had championed equal political rights for the Croatian people in Istria. Aware of the importance of education, he donated his time and money for a number of new schools to open throughout Istria. For his merits he received high honours from the Emperor and an honorary Citizenship of Opatija, but the greatest recognition was the respect he earned from his patients and their families.
In this novel, written by the esteemed novelist in 1901, a provincial composer and organist from Croatia struggles to find his way along the perilous frontier between the worlds of artistic vocation ...and humdrum family life. The local kapellmeister---a Czech, in good Habsburg tradition, and a confidant of Gaj and Palacky, influential politicians of the time---recognizes young Amadej Zlatanic as a prodigy and persuades the stingy mayor and stubborn parish priest to pack the teenager off to the conservatory in Prague. After several years of sordid student purgatory, Amadej returns to Croatia---ready for love and ready to make great art. The world of Central Europe in the 1860s flows past, and Amadej tries to keep abreast of political change. At the same time he ducks and dodges predatory relatives and townspeople in his native district, to which he has returned for the sake of employment. Despite his marriage to the impressionable and vulnerable local beauty, Adelka, and his devotion to their daughter Veruska, Amadej is sorely troubled by the political corruption and isolation of Croatia. His wife takes ill and his family is poor. Yet ultimately it is the vulgar, populist notion of Croatian "identity"---symbolized by the worship of the tamburica, a local musical instrument---that crushes Amadej's career. As it does so, he contemplates the two worlds of national greatness, amidst the Croatian national awakening, and international fame. Finally, frustrated beyond relief by unsuccessful affairs both amorous and professional, and tortured by the philistinism surrounding him, Amadej leaves the world of sanity for a mind-blowing descent into the maniacal and inescapable world of hallucination, paganism, and paranoia.
U radu autori s aspekta povijesti institucija obrađuju ustroj i djelovanje Dioničarskog društva mjesne željeznice Vinkovci-Županja-Savska obala u vremenskom periodu od godine 1900., kada je društvo ...osnovano, pa sve do godine 1906., kada je zajedno s Dioničarskim društvom vicinalne željeznice Osijek-Đakovo-Vrpolje udruženo u novo društvo pod nazivom Dioničarsko društvo sjedinjenih podravsko-posavskih vicinalnih željeznica. Sjedište društva, kao i kod većine vicinalnih željeznica, bilo je u Budimpešti. Željeznička pruga Vinkovci-Županja-Savska obala bila je u vlasništvu društva, ali u državnoj eksploataciji, odnosno upravi. Poslove dioničarskog društva obavljali su glavna skupština dioničara, ravnateljstvo i nadzorni odbor. Iako je društvo poslovalo s financijskim dobitkom, po eksploatacijskim i financijskim pokazateljima bilo je među slabijim vicinalnim željeznicama na prostoru Kraljevina Hrvatske i Slavonije. Nakon udruživanja, novoosnovano društvo predstavljalo je jednu od rentabilnijih privatnih vicinalnih željeznica na tome prostoru.
In the paper the authors outlines from the aspect of the history of institutions the structure and the activity of the Vinkovci-Županja-Savska obala Local Railway Ltd. in the timeframe from its establishment in 1900 to 1906, when together with the Osijek-Đakovo-Vrpolje Vicinal Railway Ltd. was merged into a new stock company entitled The United Podravina-Posavina Vicinal Railways Ltd. As with most vicinal railways, the company’s headquarters was in Budapest. The stock company’s tasks were performed by: the stockholders’ general assembly, headquarters and the inspecting committee. The Vinkovci-Županja-Savska obala railway line was owned by the stock company, but it was exploited i.e. managed by the state. It was put in service on 30 September 1901. One of its main goals was to dominate the Bosnian trade and transfer its products to a Croatian market. Apart from that, various agricultural goods cultivated in the fertile Slavonian area where the aforementioned railway lines went were shipped, as well as timber from rich old oak woods anticipated to be harvested. Even though the company was financially solvent, according to its exploiting and financial indicators it ranked among the weaker vicinal railways in the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia. After the merger the newly established stock company was one of the more important, more successful and more profitable vicinal railways in that area.
U radu se analizira recepcija Rakovičkoga ustanka u novinama na njemačkom jeziku koje su izlazile u austrijskom dijelu Austro-Ugarske Monarhije. Istraženo je koje su novine i na koji način ...izvještavale o ustanku u Rakovici u listopadu 1871., izvori iz kojih su preuzimale informacije te različiti aspekti ustanka o kojima se u njima pisalo. Analiza je obuhvatila i recepciju glavnih aktera ustanka, ponajprije Eugena Kvaternika, te značenje ustanka u političkom kontekstu Austro-Ugarske Monarhije prema interpretaciji onodobnoga austrijskog tiska.
The paper analyses the reception of the Rakovica Uprising in German-language newspapers published in the Austrian part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. It investigates which newspapers reported on the uprising in Rakovica in October 1871 and how they covered the event. The analysis encompasses the types of texts used by individual newspaper editorial offices to report on the uprising in the Military Frontier, including reports with or without commentary, articles discussing the causes and potential consequences of the uprising, telegraph news, and field letters. It also examines the sources from which the newspapers obtained information, such as texts in other newspapers, telegrams from official bodies, and reports from their own correspondents. The analysis considers various aspects of the uprising that were written about. By examining the placement of texts about the events in the Ogulin Regiment within specific newspapers, it is possible to assess the importance attributed to the events by the editors. The analysis further explores the reception of the main protagonists of the uprising, primarily Eugen Kvaternik, and the significance of the uprising in the political context of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, as interpreted by the Austrian press of the time. Despite some shortcomings in reporting, tendentious approach, and limited objectivity, with a few exceptions, German-language newspapers from the Austrian part of the Monarchy remain a valuable and interesting historical source for understanding the reception of the Rakovica Uprising and its main protagonists from the perspective of Austrian politics and within a broader political context.
Imperial hegemony established by the Habsburg Monarchy relied upon proper mapping during its conquests. The need for the development of geodesy and establishing reference frames was important. Until ...the end of the First World War, Vojvodina belonged to the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, so all of its surveys were carried out as part of many organized land surveys in the Monarchy. Today, more than 100 years after Vojvodina became the Autonomous Province of Serbia, the network developed by the Monarchy and cadastral plans from that period are still in use. In this paper, in addition to a historical overview of military and cadastral surveys in Vojvodina, we will show data that have historical significance and are available on the Internet and in historical archives. We will also emphasize how the maps available in historical archives of the neighbouring countries could have been used to set up Serbian national spatial data infrastructure.
This special issue addresses practices of border-making and their consequences on the territory of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. As the reality did not correspond to the peaceful Europe ...articulated in the Paris Treaties, a multitude of (un)foreseen complications followed the drawing of borders and states. Articles include new case studies on the creation, centralization or peripheralization of border regions, such as Subcarpathian Rus, Vojvodina, Banat and the Carpathian Mountains, on border zones such as the Czechoslovakian harbour in Germany, and on cross-border activities. The special issue shows how disputes over national identities and ethnic minorities, as well as other factors such as the economic consequences of the new state borders, appeared on the interwar political agenda and coloured the lives of borderland inhabitants. Adopting a bottom-up approach, the contributions demonstrate the agency of borderlands and their people in the establishment, functioning, disorganization or ultimate breakdown of some of the newly created interwar nation-states.
Catherine Horel has undertaken a comparative analysis of the societal, ethnic, and cultural diversity in the last decades of the Habsburg Monarchy as represented in twelve cities: Arad, Bratislava, ...Brno, Chernivtsi, Lviv, Oradea, Rijeka, Sarajevo, Subotica, Timișoara, Trieste, and Zagreb. By purposely selecting these cities, the author aims to counter the disproportionate attention that the largest cities in the empire receive. With a focus on the aspects of everyday life faced by the city inhabitants (associations, schools, economy, and municipal politics) the book avoids any idealization of the monarchy as a paradise of peaceful multiculturalism, and also avoids exaggerating conflicts. The author claims that the world of the Habsburg cities was a dynamic space where many models coexisted and created vitality, emulation, and conflict. Modernization brought about the dissolution of old structures, but also mobility, the progress of education, the explosion of associative life, and constantly growing cultural offerings.
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