Review article

EUGEN KVATERNIK – THREE LETTERS (1861 – 1862)

Željko Karaula ; Poslijediplomski studij povijesti, Hrvatski studiji, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

Following a short introduction on the political activities of Eugen Kvaternik (1825 – 1871), politician, diplomat and revolutionary, there are three letters attached to this paper (two written by Eugen Kvaternik and addressed to Ivan Mažuranić and the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Count J. Rechberg, and there is one letter addressed to Kvaternik
by the first core of Croatian Party of Right Movement Followers coming from Hrvatsko zagorje).
The letters were written during a period amounting to just slightly over a year (January 1861 – February 1862) following Kvaternik’s return to Croatia in November of 1860 and his participating in the Croatian Parliament in 1861. Each of the letters mirrors a certain political moment.
Kvaternik sent a copy of his new book to Mažuranić (Politička razmatranja, I. svezak – Political Reflections, Volume I) along with his first letter (January 1861) warning Mažuranić about the political problems he was facing.
With his second letter (dated February, 1862) addressed to Count Rechberg, Austrian Minister of foreign affairs, Kvaternik protests because the printing of his book (Politička razmatranja, II. svezak – Political Reflections Volume II) had been stopped and the book
confiscated.
In his letter to Rechberg, Kvaternik complains about the politics of I. Mažuranić and M. Ožegović as something unworthy of Croatian people. The third letter was written by the Croatian Party of Right Movement Followers from Hrvatsko Zagorje praising Kvaternik’s idea about an independent Croatia he had put forward during the Croatian Parliament
session (the letter contains no information on the date or place it had been written, but this was probably several months after the Parliament’s session in April of 1861).

Keywords

letter; Eugen Kvaternik; Count Rechberg; Ivan Mažuranić, Party of Right Movement Followers

Hrčak ID:

68528

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/68528

Publication date:

5.5.2011.

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