Original scientific paper

Baroness Ivka Ožegović (1873 - 1923)

Tomislav Bogdanović orcid.org/0000-0002-6360-1343 ; Koruška 51, HR-48260 Križevci

Abstract

Baroness Ivka Ožegović was born around 1873 in a Hungarian urban family Hayos. By vocation she was a teacher and after having married Baron Lewis Ožegović she focused on humanitarian and voluntary work. She was among the most enterprising members of almost all Croatian institutions and was an ardent supporter of Zagreb-based First Workers’ Society,
The Voluntary Firefighting Association of Kri¬ževci, and The Croatian Peasants’ Singing Society Petar Zrinski in Vrbovec. She helped with establishing The Ladies’ Association in Koprivnica. The Baroness also performed the duty of chairwoman of the organisation Croatian Woman and the female branch of The Croatian National Guard.
During World War One Baroness Ožegović worked as a nurse in the Red Cross Hospital in Obrtna ulica in Zagreb, where, apart from taking care of the wounded she also taught the illiterate to read and write.
The baroness was the first to publicly encourage Croatian women to worship the Zrinski and Frankopan cult and also tried to make people aware of the value of women’s work. She stood for self-determination of the Croats, Serbs and Slovenes and supported preservation of the Croatian language in which she wrote occasional verses and emotional poems full of patriotic feelings.
Ivka Baroness Ožegović died on 26th January 15 000 people came to her funeral, and the ceremony was conducted by the very Bishop, Dr. Lang.

Keywords

Ivka; Baroness Ožegović; teacher; philantropist; patriot; the Croatian Woman; national guard; patriotism

Hrčak ID:

100839

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/100839

Publication date:

1.3.2013.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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