Arhivski vjesnik, Vol. 53 No. 1, 2010.
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CORRESPONDENCE OF JOSIP MATASOVIĆ IN HIS PERSONAL PAPERS IN THE CROATIAN STATE ARCHIVES
Marijan Bosnar
Sažetak
The extensive personal and business correspondence of Josip Matasović (1892-1962), the renowned Croatian cultural historian and archivist, was acquired by the Croatian State Archives in two accessions (in 1991 and 2006), as part of his personal papers. The correspondence mostly concerns his long-time scientific, pedagogic and editorial work, the latter mainly relating to the journal Narodna Starina. Apart from the basic biographical information on Matasović and the essentials on accessing and arranging his personal papers, this article strives to emphasise the structure of the correspondents, i.e. notable individuals and legal entities the creator contacted during the 60-year period (such as historians, archaeologists, economists, solicitors, linguists, politicians, ethnologists, and writers), quantity per correspondent, as well as the preservation of the correspondence (in total it comprises of 14 archival boxes that store 831 correspondents). The structure of the correspondence shows the historians as the most featured profession. Particularly interesting is the prominence of some of the most distinguished Croatian writers of the last century, namely Miroslav Krleža, Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Ivan Goran Kovačić, Antun Gustav Matoš, and Dragutin Tadijanović. The impressive quantity and structure of Matasović’s correspondence, as well as the wide scope of his correspondents, makes it not only an important part of his personal papers and a significant source for studying his life and work, but also a valued source for the historiography and time in which Josip Matasović lived.
Ključne riječi
Josip Matasović; correspondence; personal papers; Croatian State Archives
Hrčak ID:
62520
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.9.2010.
Posjeta: 2.378 *