Review article

Professor Franjo Krleža as a historian of chemistry

Snježana Paušek-Baždar ; Antropološki centar Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti, Ante Kovačića 5, HR-10000 Zagreb, Hrvatska *

* Corresponding author.

Abstract

Franjo Krleža (Krapina, December 8, 1908 – Krapinske Toplice, October 20, 1988)
operated in Croatia until 1954. Considering that he was a professor of chemistry at the
Home Guard Ensign School of the Armed Forces during the Independent State of Croatia,
after the founding of the Second Yugoslavia, he could not have a university career
in Zagreb. Therefore, he accepted the invitation from Sarajevo and was elected first as an
assistant professor, and then as an associate and full professor at the Faculty of Science, where he worked until his retirement (1977), when he returned to Zagreb. This paper
analyzes his articles on the history of European chemistry that he published in Croatia
in the journal Nature (1938 and 1939), and especially the article on the history of Croatian
chemistry in the Archives of Chemistry (1953), where he gave a historical overview
of teaching at Croatian real schools and grammar high schools from 1856 until the end
of the Second World War.

Keywords

Franjo Krleža; European alchemistry; history of chemistry; history of chemistry education in Croatia; radioactivity

Hrčak ID:

346828

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/346828

Publication date:

22.11.2020.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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