Review article
https://doi.org/10.21857/m3v76tz1ey
IVAN KUKULJEVIĆ SAKCINSKI IN THE RADOVI ANNUAL OF THE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH WORK OF THE CROATIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS IN VARAŽDIN
Eduard Vargović
; Varaždin
Abstract
The paper presents research on Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski published in the Radovi edition
by the Institute for Scientific Research Work in Varaždin. These are all, with one exception,
authorized presentations from scientific conferences organised at Kukuljević’s Days manifestation
in Varaždinske Toplice. The authors are: Miroslav Kurelac, Aleksandra Kolarić, Ivan
Zvonar, Mirjana Matijević-Sokol, Stjepan Hranjec, Miroslav Šicel, Božena Filipan, Denis
Peričić, Tomislav Đurić, Dubravka Franković and Stjepan Damjanović, who presented his
paper at the conference, Homage to Vatroslav Jagić 1838 – 2003. Roundtable held in Varaždin on 23
September 2013.
In their texts the aforementioned authors highlighted the most important events from life
and work of Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski.
Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski was not only the founder of numerous scientific disciplines but
also of many archives, libraries, museums, magazines, and of cultural and historical societies.
He gathered historical materials and sources (state archive), published significant historical
documents, wrote scientific historical discussions and was also a biographer, archaeologist,
art historian, bibliographer and bibliophile.
Kukuljević was one of the most important public figures in Croatia in the 19th century,
and as the founder of the modern Croatian historiography, he was the subject in a thorough
discussion by Jaroslav Šidak.
Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski holds an important place in literature as he was the first to
publish an extensive collection of folk tales in all three Croatian dialects. The scientific classification
of Kajkavian folk songs did not start before Kukuljević so that his merits in this field
are also of utmost importance.
Kukuljević founded the modern Croatian bibliography. He was its theoretician as well as
the writer of biographical monographs and biographical collections of papers. Through scientific
discussions he contributed to the development of biographies and the history of Croatian
literature, and with the biographical lexicon he founded the history of art as well. Furthermore,
his contributions on fairies are of exceptional importance for the Croatian mythology.
Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski’s work “Slovnik umjetnika jugoslavenskih” (Eng. Lexicon of South-
Slavic Artists) represents a step forward in the development of the Croatian musical culture.
All the authors stressed the importance of publishing Kukuljević’s legacy for the purpose
of further research.
Keywords
Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski; Radovi annual; Institute of Croatian Academy in Varaždin; Kukuljević’s Days in Varaždinske Toplice.38
Hrčak ID:
191525
URI
Publication date:
29.12.2017.
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