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IVAN MAŽURANIĆ’S POLITICAL ACTIVITIES

Ivan Barbarić

Abstract

Ivan Mažuranić was not only well known as a writer and poet but was one of the greatest Croatian politicians and statesman of the 19th century. At a very early age of 32 he substituted writing for politics. He became an enthusiastic member of the Illyrian Movement but until 1848 was not greatly involved in politics. He became more active in politics and the Croatian Parliament through the National Party and then the ”Progress” Party and became the programme writer. His first well-known political document is the ”Hervati Madjarom” from 1848. As a skilled lawyer and diplomat he held very important positions in judicature and administration and the most important are: The President of the Croatian Court Dicastery and as a Croatian Court Chancellor in Vienna. He is the author of most parliament documents and laws of which the most renowned is Article 42 of the Croatian Parliament in 1861. He was a politician with foresight and as such he fought for a greater autonomy for Croatia within the Monarchy and he fought against the hegemonistic politics of Hungary. As the first plebeian Civil Governor (1873-1880) he introduced a series of important reforms in all aspects of social and public life. With Mažuranić starts an era of a new, more modern Croatia, based on reforms on West European models and in the spirit of democratic civil liberalism.

Keywords

Ivan Mažuranić; politician; statesman; Illyrian Movement; National Party; ”Progress” Party; unionists; Dicastery; Croatian Parliament; Monarchy; Vienna; Budapest; plebeian Civil Governor; reforms; liberalism

Hrčak ID:

332575

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/332575

Publication date:

22.11.2006.

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