Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.21857/94kl4cwe7m

THEODOR KRAVINA CRONSTAIN AND HIS CONNECTIONS TO THE JESUIT COLLEGE IN VARAŽDIN (THE QUARTER OF MILLENNIA ANNIVERSARY OF THE VARAŽDIN PROFESSOR CRONSTAIN APPOINTMENT TO THE POST OF RECTOR OF THERESIANUM)

Stanislav Južnič ; Sveučilište u Oklahomi, Norman, OK, SAD

Abstract

We researched the work of the Lower Styrian Jesuits in mathematical sciences. Before the suppression of the Jesuit order, some of them held the important pedagogical and scientific positions in the Habsburg monarchy. They worked in different colleges, because Maribor Jesuit residence itself never developed the higher studies of philosophy for the non-Jesuit students. Despite of that fact, Maribor became one of the spiritual Jesuit centers in monarchy and we claimed that Maribor college higher education was on its way, but the suppression of the Jesuits ended the short-lived Maribor residence.
We examined the work of the important Lower Styrian scientist Theodor Kravina Cronstain (*1720 Slivnica by Maribor- 1789 Zwettl om Lower Austria) in Varaždin. Until the suppression of the Jesuit order, he held the most sophisticated pedagogical and scientific positions in monarchy.
Theodor Kravina von Cronstain taught in the very best Central European elite school Theresianum in Vienna, for last several years as its rector. Cronstain succeeded and transformed Theresianum into a center of experimental learning of many branches of sciences.
Until recently, Cronstain (Kravina) was relatively poorly known in Croatian and Slovenian historiography. We proved that their works and positions were important enough to be known by broader public. Especially Kravina Cronstain (Cronstein) began the education for the noble elites.
Theodor Kravina von Cronstain was the most successful educator ever born in the territory of modern Slovenia. As all his contemporary colleagues, he happened to be a Jesuit which was initially very helpful but finally proved to be a direct reason for the end of his work in education after the suppression of Jesuits in 1773.

Keywords

Varaždin; Viennese Theresianum; Theodor Kravina Cronstain (Cronstein); History of the Jesuit Mathematical Sciences; counts Attems; Lower Styria; 18th century

Hrčak ID:

191536

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/191536

Publication date:

29.12.2017.

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