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https://doi.org/10.22586/csp.v57i2.35478
The Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb in the Context of Austro-Hungarian Universities at the Beginning of the 20th Century, with Special Emphasis on the Natural Sciences and Mathematics Teaching Staff
Tihomir Vukelja
orcid.org/0000-0001-7097-2700
; Zavod za teorijsku fiziku kondenzirane tvari, Prirodoslovno-matematički fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
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Sažetak
Professional education in Natural Sciences and mathematics in Croatia at the beginning of the 20th Century was provided at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb. The structure of the teaching staff of the Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the Faculty in the period 1901–1914 is well known, but the question of whether this structure met the university standards of the time has not been considered so far. The only way to an unambiguous answer to this question is through comparative analysis in an appropriate context. The aim of this paper is to satisfy the prerequisite for such an analysis: to explicate the general status of the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb in such a context, thus forming a background against which it will be possible to view the results of the comparative analysis as parts of a meaningful whole. The narrowest appropriate context is the universities in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, and in this paper the position of the Faculty among them is considered with regard to the number of full-time students, the total number of professors and private docents, and the number of Natural Sciences and mathematics professors and private docents. The results of these considerations are as follows: at the beginning of the 20th Century, the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb was the second smallest faculty of philosophy in the Monarchy by the number of full-time students, by the number of all professors, and by the number of Natural Sciences and mathematics professors, and the third smallest faculty by the number of all private docents and by the number of Natural Sciences and mathematics private docents; during the period under consideration, the Faculty experienced a certain rise by almost all of these parameters, but this rise was followed by a decline to the same or lower positions, so that at the beginning of 1914 it was the smallest faculty of philosophy in the Monarchy by the number of full-time students and by the number of Natural Sciences and mathematics professors, one of the two smallest faculties of philosophy by the number of all professors, and the third smallest faculty of philosophy by the number of all private docents and by the number of Natural Sciences and mathematics private docents.
Ključne riječi
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy; 20th Century; History of University; Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb; Students; Teaching Staff at Faculties of Philosophy; Natural Sciences and Mathematics Teaching Staff at Faculties of Philosophy
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341146
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15.12.2025.
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