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IVAN KUKUUEVIĆ SAKCINSKI ALS EPIGRAPHIKER

Mirjana Matijević-Sokol

Sažetak

Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski's comprehensive and extensive activity in researching and collecting the cultural and historical heritage included the study of epigraphy. He discovered, researched, described and published epigraphic monuments dating from Roman times to the
19th century. He gave meaning to his work on the epigraphic heritage and carried it out through the activity of the »Society for Yugoslav History and Antiquities«. The aim with which the society was founded was to collect material which would provide the basis for a critical study of the history of the Croatian people in order to raise national consciousness.
Kukuljević collected numerous epigraphic monuments with the help of his assistants, especially Mijat Sabljar. He published them in his reports from field trips, in collections of diplomatic historical sources. He is responsible for the discovery, in Venice, of Prince Višeslav's
baptismal font and for the fact that it was ascribed to the Croatian cultural corpus. He was also the first to draw the attention of scholars to the Baška Stone Tablet and he tried his hand as an epigraphist endeavouring to decipher this exceptionally important Glagolitic inscription. His work entitled Nadpisi sredovječni i novovjeki na crkvah, javnih i privatnih sgradah itd. u Hrvatskoj i Slavoniji, which contains 1342 inscriptions in Latin, German and Croatian written in the Latin, Glagolitic and Cyrillic scripts, was published posthumously. The Archives of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences contain the manuscript of another epigraphic collection which he had prepared for publication, entitled Nadpisi istranski sa otoci Krkom, Cresom i Pagom. It contains 573 inscriptions, mostly from Istria, but also from the islands mentioned in the title.
Although it may be concluded that Kukuljević was not a brilliant epigraphist, because he was self-taught, the assessment of J. Sidak, to the effect that he was a collector of the national heritage who created a store of material available to researchers, is a valid one.

Ključne riječi

Hrčak ID:

135016

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/135016

Datum izdavanja:

5.12.1996.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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