Original scientific paper
THE LINKS BETWEEN KUKULJEVIĆ'S NOBLE ESTATES TONIMIR NEAR VARAŽDINSKE TOPLICE AND PUHAKOVEC NEAR SV. KRIŽ ZAČRETJE
Božena Filipan
; Varaždinske Toplice
Abstract
Tonimir and Puhakovec, Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski's noble country estates, are the places of his exceptionally creative activities. He completed the first Croatian contemporary drama Juran i Sofija (Juran and Sofija) at Tonimir in 1838, and Puhakovec was the place where in 1889 he prepared his last significant literary work Nadpisi sredovječni i novovjeki... iz Hrvatske i Slavonije . for printing but it was finally published by JAZU in 1891, after his death.
Kukuljević's biographers did not do any research work connected with the estates owned by his father, Antun, Kukuljević Sakcinski, and except for Smikičiklas's and Svoboda's descriptions of social life at the Tonimir estate, there were no links established between Kukuljević's activities and surrounding factors emerging from his family relationships (preceding his official moving to Zagreb in 1848). Kukuljević's Skica povijesti obitelji Kukuljevića Sakcinskih containing genealogical tables reveals the early connection of Ivan's father Antun Kukuljević Sakcinski with the Zagorski kotar (Zagorje county) of the historical Varaždin County.
In this paper written on the occasion of marking the 200th anniversary of Kukuljević's birth (born in Varaždin, May 29th, 1816 – died at Puhakovec, August 1st, 1889), the paper’s author describes family and social/political circumstances in which Kukuljević worked at his country estates in a most creative manner, beginning from his ecstatic youth to his premature death. Both localities, Tonimir and Puhakovec, deserve to be under permanent protection of cultural locality regional plans as well as to be revived with adequate contents because they are monumental areas where noble country-houses belonging to the Kukuljević Sakcinski families are situated, connecting Varaždinske Toplice and Sv. Križ Začretje from the historical point of view. Furthermore, the paper's author supports the necessity for a critical review and publishing of Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski's preserved but unpublished literary heritage.
Keywords
Antun i Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski; Tonimir, Puhakovec; creative work, biography; monumental heritage, safety measures
Hrčak ID:
193955
URI
Publication date:
30.11.2017.
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