Arhivski vjesnik, Vol. 53 No. 1, 2010.
Pregledni rad
THE UNKNOWN WORLD OF EMIL LASZOWSKI
Mario Stipančević
Sažetak
We often witness the fact of knowing very little or almost nothing about private and everyday life of the people from the past. Due to the lack of reliable sources one has to be content with arid facts and information such as the year and place of birth, beginning and the end of education, service and employment, social activity, scientific work, and place and year of death. Even this basic information is sometimes hard or impossible to find. For that very reason the personal papers of the renowned intellectual and public official Emil Laszowski, stored in the Croatian State Archives, is considered particularly valuable. It features the saved diary, memoir and autobiographical data written about his life by Laszowski and they offer a first hand insight into his life in its entirety, with all the details and events that formed it. Since life of an individual is always interwoven with fates and lives of other people, from friends and relatives to casual acquaintances, these kinds of notes also speak about persons who formed the totality of living known to us even today and which is often almost impossible to reconstruct in the past reality. What Laszowski left behind as a diligent archivist M. Stipančević, Neznani svijet Emila Laszowskog, is really a document of his entire life, from its beginning to its end, with (almost) all events and persons that characterised it. Due to the amplitude of the data from his personal papers, this article shows only one of its parts, from Laszowski's birth to enrolment to the Law School at Zagreb's University. It shows in a very picturesque and "life-related" way Laszowski's origin, his next of kin, childhood, schooling, friends, first loves, facing the reality and so on. One has to bear in mind of course, that this gives a subjective (retrospective) image and that some details (including the comments by the article's author) has to be taken with a certain amount of care. On the other hand, no one knew better about the Laszowski's life and the people who characterised it than Laszowski himself and we can only be thankful that he left us such an interesting testimony about it.
Ključne riječi
Emil Laszowski; biography; personal papers; archives
Hrčak ID:
62519
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Datum izdavanja:
15.9.2010.
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