Original scientific paper
A 160 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN BREZNIČKI HUM (1852-2012)
Robert Ivančan
Abstract
In the late eighteenth and in the beginnings of nineteenth century the Church, represented here by the local clergyman, had the maximum influence on the development of the education in the local villages.
The beginnings of tuition in reading, writing and basic calculus can be tracked back to the local organ player (ludimagister, organista, školnik) Nikola Novosel back in the first half of the nineteenth century.
According to the document kept in the National Archive in Zagreb the first school in the area of Breznički Hum was a school founded on June 16 1852. thanks to the local clergyman and the local people who lived there. The mentioned folk school was subjected to the school district of Sveti Ivan Zelina and the diocese of Zagreb.
Celebrating the 160th anniversary of that event we are bringing forth this article which deals with historical overview of schooling in Breznički Hum. Onwards this article gives us an insight in the educational work of the school in Hum together with its subsidiaries dispersed among many picturesque villages in the area.
Keywords
schooling; Breznički Hum, Breznica, Šćepanje; founding of folk school
Hrčak ID:
119565
URI
Publication date:
29.11.2013.
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