Today, school textbooks in Croatia state that Josip Runjanin is one of the important Illyrian composers who set the Croatian anthem to music. However, this information, as well as information about ...his compositional contribution, is full of various controversies that are rarely mentioned by the general public. This paper explores these controversies with particular reference to issues of academic integrity and politics that led to the construction of the character and work of Josip Runjanin present in public today and their repercussions in the future.
The topic of this article is related to Rijeka at the time of the infamous Bach’s absolutism, when the Narodna Čitaonica Riečka (Croatian Popular Lecture Club of Rijeka) began to operate. Dr. Ignac ...(Vatroslav) Vinko Medanić (1805-1856), a prominent Rijeka attorney, landlord and shipowner, patrician councillor of Bakar and Rijeka, played an important
role in its foundation. This contribution is about an unusually important citizen of Rijeka of his time, who is today unfortunately forgotten. He was an acquaintance of the Croatian orthographic reformer Josip
Završnik, of the Slovak revivalist and writer Jan Kollár, of the leader of the Illyrian movement Ljudevit Gaj, the Ban and Governor of Rijeka Josip Jelačić Bužimski, of the Croatian polyhistor and writer Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski and other distinguished persons of his time. He was
the first vice-president of the Narodna Čitaonica Riečka and
the chief government commissioner for the founding of the Chamber of Commerce in Rijeka. In this paper we focus on the most important biographic details of his career and the main characteristics of his activist work, especially of his work in the domain of public education and culture.
Tema ovoga priloga vezana je za Rijeku u doba neoapsolutizma, kada počinje djelovati Narodna čitaonica riečka, za čije su osnivanje posebno
zaslužan dr. Ignac (Vatroslav) Vinko Medanić (1805.–1856.), istaknuti riječki odvjetnik, posjednik i brodovlasnik, patricijski vijećnik Bakra i
Rijeke. Riječ o neobično značajnom riječkom građaninu svoga vremena, danas nažalost zaboravljenom, koji se istaknuo na mnogim područjima. Bio
je znanac hrvatskoga pravopisnoga reformatora Josipa Završnika, slovačkoga preporoditelja Jana Kollára, vođe ilirskoga pokreta Ljudevita
Gaja, bana Josipa Jelačića Bužimskoga, hrvatskoga polihistora Ivana Kukuljevića Sakcinskog i drugih znamenitih osoba svoga vremena. Bio je prvi potpredsjednik Narodne čitaonice riečke i glavni vladin
povjerenik za osnivanje Gospodarske komore u Rijeci. U prilogu se govori
o najvažnijim o biografskim pojedinostima i značajkama njegova javnoga djelovanja, posebno na području narodne prosvjete i kulture.
Tema ovoga priloga vezana je za Rijeku u doba neoapsolutizma, kada počinje djelovati Narodna čitaonica riečka, za čije su osnivanje posebno zaslužan dr. Ignac (Vatroslav) Vinko Medanić (1805.–1856.), ...istaknuti riječki odvjetnik, posjednik i brodovlasnik, patricijski vijećnik Bakra i Rijeke. Riječ o neobično značajnom riječkom građaninu svoga vremena, danas nažalost zaboravljenom, koji se istaknuo na mnogim područjima. Bio je znanac hrvatskoga pravopisnoga reformatora Josipa Završnika, slovačkoga preporoditelja Jana Kollára, vođe ilirskoga pokreta Ljudevita Gaja, bana Josipa Jelačića Bužimskoga, hrvatskoga polihistora Ivana Kukuljevića Sakcinskog i drugih znamenitih osoba svoga vremena. Bio je prvi potpredsjednik Narodne čitaonice riečke i glavni vladin povjerenik za osnivanje Gospodarske komore u Rijeci. U prilogu se govori o najvažnijim o biografskim pojedinostima i značajkama njegova javnoga djelovanja, posebno na području narodne prosvjete i kulture.
For a century and half, the life and work of the Slovenian–Croatian poet Stanko Vraz (1810–1851) has aroused mutually irreconcilable interpretations in Slovenian literary history and Slovenian ...public. These ambiguous receptions usually ranged between praising Vraz as a visionary Styrian poet and dismissing him as a “national renegade.” On one side, the Slovenian reception of Vraz centered on his decision to abandon writing in Slovenian and to embrace Shtokavian Croatian. On the other side, Vraz was an internationally acclaimed Illyrian poet and romantic Pan-Slav that almost single-handedly kindled the flame for the Slovenian national rebirth in pre-March Lower Styria. Moreover, Slovenian literary historiography adds to his ambiguous status by treating him as a unique and often tragic figure. Despite his mythicized role, Stanko Vraz in nacionalizem (Stanko Vraz and Nationalism) depicts Vraz from another angle—as a symptom of these processes rather than as their main protagonist. To achieve this task, the book offers a new contextualization of Vraz’s practice and provides a new look at the Slovenian posthumous reception of the poet.
Bosnian Franciscan Ivan Franjo Jukić (1818-1857) died a hundred and fifty years ago. He was one of the most prominent figures in the 19th century cultural life of Bosnia and Herzegovina, credited ...with the development of a wide-ranging set of aspects of cultural life in Bosnia and Herzegovina, organised in the unpropitious conditions of the Turkish occupation. Among other things, he studied the non-religious cultural history of Bosnia and Herzegovina and, in particular, the literary work of his Franciscan predecessors who were active in pastoral work for many years on the entire Croatian cultural territory and, in some periods, outside this territory. Preaching in the tongue of the people, they contributed greatly to the standardisation of the Croatian language and to the development and use of bosanica as a specific form of the Croatian Cyrillic script. Jukić was one of the first, if not the first Croatian student of this script. The study of bosanica was an inspiration to him to collect and bibliographically describe books written in this script and, also, books written in the Latin script. Thus emerged the core of his text, Bosnian Literature, which is in fact a general bibliography of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was the first book to set as a criterion the secular and not the religious borders of Bosnia. The text was published in two installments in the first literary journal in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosanski prijatelj, started and edited by Jukić.The paper is to commemorate the anniversary of his death. It provides an insight into the results of the bibliographic, cultural and historic study of Jukić’s text. The bibliographic study focuses on the bibliographic structure, bibliographic descriptions and on the criteria applied in the selection of the material. The bibliographic features are analysed as part of the cultural and historic context, in the synchronic and diachronic sense of the word. The method applied in the contextualised bibliographic analysis provides background for the study of some of Jukić’s less well known standpoints, relevant for the criteria employed in the selection of the materials for the national retrospective bibliography.The need to approach the matter from cultural and historic aspects is in correspondence with Jukić’s devout support of the Illyrian movement. This movement promoted the unity of the Southern Slavs, calling them all Illyrians and regarding them as basically a single people speaking the same language. As one of its focuses, the movement also promoted bibliographic work. Tracing back this orientation leads us to its source, the German Romanticism, which relied on the common language for the building of unity of the disunited German lands, and promoted the primacy of culture over the primacy of politics. With the German people this unity was successful, whereas the political reality, in part shaped by bloody wars, was a vivid proof of the failure of the Illyrian, and later, of the Southern Slavic idea. The course of research done for this paper was greatly affected by this historical fact, especially evident in the criteria for the selection of the bibliographic material.Starting off with the Illyrians’ understanding of what ”the regional’’ denotes, Jukić not only accepted the identification of the Illyrians and the Southern Slavs as one and the same entity, but he also treated Bosnia’s Muslims as the ”glorious Illyrian people’’, not only territorially but also ethnically. Students of the cultural and political history of Bosnia did not agree with Jukić’s arguments, and the cultural and historical processes proved him wrong by developing in directions that Jukić could not have foreseen or expected. The outcome of the Turkish siege of Bosnia was, namely, in the identification of the religious with the national. So it happened that Jukić, as a Catholic, is thought of as a Croatian culturalist and bibliographer, and a member of the Croatian ethnic group, irrespective of the fact that, territorially speaking, he belongs to Bosnia and Herzegovina and is a member of that state’s cultural elite.A bibliographic analysis makes up the core of the paper, and the core is framed by a methodologically immanent, modern cultural and historical context. Furthermore, inspired by Jukić’s Illyrian orientation, the analysis is also evaluated briefly from the point of view of the post-modern cultural and historic constructivism.
Problemi vezani uz osnivanje i djelovanje prvoga nacionalnog društva u preporodnom razdoblju na hrvatskom prostoru, varaždinskog “Družtva narodnog”, prvoga hrvatskoga nacionalnog društva tema je ovog ...rada koji je ujedno i pokušaj prikaza društvenih, političkih i kulturnih kretanja u Varaždinu krajem osamnaestog i u prvoj polovici devetnaestog stoljeća. Rad se temelji na arhivskoj i tiskanoj građi koja se odnosi na osnivanje i djelovanje varaždinske Čitaonice u preporodnom razdoblju i tekstovima koji su bili publicirani povodom obljetnica njezina utemeljenja.
Cilj ovoga rada je na temelju postojeće literature i novina prikazati i objasniti politički put književnika, pjesnika i političara Mirka Bogovića (1816.-1893.), posebice njegov put od „vatrenog“ ...pristaše ilirskog pokreta do čvrstog unionista poslije 1860. godine. Bogović tada postaje zagovornik dualizma i što jačeg vezivanja Hrvatske unutar Ugarskog kraljevstva, čak do potiranja njenih skromnih državnopravnih i financijskih okvira u toj zajednici nejednakih. Na kraju rada nalazi se devet pisama koja se tiču Bogovićevog književnog i političkog rada iz preporodnog i neoapsolutističkog razdoblja. Ona su ovdje priložena jer djelomično pokazuju Bogovićev materijalni položaj te njegov temperament i karakter, što korespondira s temom ovog rada.
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