Original scientific paper
Tadija Smičiklas as Director of the Archive of the Academy, and his Newly found Materials
Petar Strčić
Abstract
Tadija Smičiklas (1843-1914), Croatian scholar, historian, cultural worker and politician, specialised in Vienna also in the scholarly area of historical auxiliary sciences, in which he was later a lecturer at the Faculty of Arts in Zagreb. However, he left particular traces by editing historical sources, and of his oeuvre, apart from his Poviest hrvatska [Croatian history], his most famous work is the archaeographical edition of his multi-volume Codex diplomaticus Croatiae, Slavoniae et Dalmatiae. From 1896 until his death in 1914, Smičiklas was also an archivist and director of the Archive of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb, even in the period when he was also the president of the Academy (1900-1914). The largest part of the collection of his hand-written legacy is kept in the Archive of the Academy. Recently, in 1993 and 1995, another part of Smičiklas’s legacy was found in the legacy of Marko Kostrenčić, late member of the Academy and Smičiklas’s protégé, and it was immediately thereafter donated to the Academy and reunited with the rest in the Academy’s Archive.
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15824
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Publication date:
1.3.2001.
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