Professional paper
Letters of Ivan Kostrenčić to Vatroslav Jagić
Alojz Jembrih
; Department of Croatian Studies, Centre for Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, Zagreb
Abstract
It is still emphasised that the letters of notable Slavists are a valuable source for the history of this scholarly discipline. They provide data for research into the living circumstances and relations among scholars, and they are also a source for their social, political, cultural and scholarly views on the philological issues in which they were interested. Good proof of the statement above may be found in fourteen letters of Ivan Kostrenčić (1844-1924) addressed to Vatroslav Jagić (1838-1923). Among these letters, one was sent from Vienna (1875), eleven from Zagreb (1895, and one letter from 1896) and one from Crikvenica (1914). The majority of the letters were sent from Zagreb to Jagić in Vienna. The first letter belongs to the period when Kostrenčić held the position of court librarian in Vienna, and those from Zagreb come from the period when he held the position of first librarian of the University Library in Zagreb (1875-1911) and was secretary and treasurer of the Matica hrvatska (since 1877). The letters are annotated and commented in footnotes.
Keywords
Ivan Kostrenčić; Vatroslav Jagić; Slavistics; Glagolitic printed books; correspondence
Hrčak ID:
168308
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2015.
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