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Ivan Butković (1876 – 1954)
Mate ANIĆ
orcid.org/0000-0003-1545-4614
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu, Split, Hrvatska
Sažetak
In this article, the author investigates and chronologically elaborates on the life of Ivan Butković who was a prominent member of the Croatian Catholic Movement. This movement was initiated by Antun Mahnić, bishop of Krk, who formulated general ideas of the Movement: faith, nationality, democracy (Christian). The chief goal of the Movement was to organize laics to defend the Church in the struggle against contemporary liberal ideas. The author emphasizes Butković’s contribution to the Movement, especially regarding the mobilization of laics in order that future laic members should become leaders of the Movement. Already a student in Vienna, Butković started the Movement through the work of the Croatian Catholic Academic Society »Croatia«. Then, after establishing a journal for the Croatian Catholic youth named Luč [Light], Butković, as a disciple of bishop Mahnić, started to promote and disseminate ideas of the Movement. Butković’s task was to extend the work of the Movement from Vienna to Croatia, and he has accomplished this in 1906 by organizing the Croatian Catholic Academic Society »Domagoj« in Zagreb. This association will become the chief initiator of establishing new Catholic societies, and organizer of all larger Catholic congresses in Croatia. After finishing his studies in Vienna, Butković in 1909 went to Zadar, where he became a professor at the Central Seminary of Theology. From this position, he supported the organization of the Catholic Movement in Dalmatia. During his time in Zadar, Butković got acquainted with political ideas of the Party of Right that were spread through the Catholic journal Dan [Day], which was published in Split. By the same token, Butković published his own political views in articles issued in newspapers Hrvatska Straža [Croatian Guard]. On the other hand, although he supported the idea of forming a new Catholic political party, Butković maintained that Catholic youth should stay out of politics. Namely, after the formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes in 1919, Butković became a member of the Croatian popular party that was established by the Seniority. When in 1922 Zadar became part of Italy, Butković moved to Split. In the period between 1924 and 1925, he acted as vice-rector of the Croatian Institute of St. Jerome in Rome but soon he was forced to leave because of his disagreement with the students of the Institute. At the end of 1925 he returned to Split where he maintained his professorship until 1952, and two years after his retirement, in the age of 78, he passed away.
Ključne riječi
Ivan Butković; Croatian Catholic Movement; Croatian Catholic AcademicSociety »Hrvatska« in Vienna and »Domagoj« in Zagreb; journal of Croatian Catholic youth Luč; Institute of St. Jerome in Rome.
Hrčak ID:
232553
URI
Datum izdavanja:
18.12.2019.
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