Professional paper
A Contribution to the Biography of Teacher Martin Vlahović
Ivica Zvonar
orcid.org/0000-0003-0141-2894
; Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Department of historical sciences, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author fragmentarily described the life and work of teacher Martin Vlahović (Šemovci, 1903 – Bjelovar, 1986), who plied his trade in different places in the area of Northern Croatia from the middle of the 1920s until the 1960s, on the basis of the currently available and rather inadequate sources and literature. Today his work is largely unknown outside of the environment where he worked, while preserved sources are scarce and difficult to obtain. Vlahović worked as a teacher with pupils starting their education for a very long time in different places of the wider Podravina and Bilogora areas (e.g. Većeslavac, Vrtlinska, Peteranec, Donja Petrička, Hampovica, Nove Plavnice, Ćurlovac). He tried to positively influence life in places where he resided in different ways. For example, he was responsible for the establishment of a volunteer fire department in Hampovica and he also organized different cultural, educational and entertainment activities while he lived and worked there. In that sense, this paper is a microstudy of a kind that to some extent shows that it was teachers who were often times important for the development of the educational, as well as cultural and social life of smaller places.
Keywords
Martin Vlahović; teacher; teaching; 20th century
Hrčak ID:
200498
URI
Publication date:
28.12.2017.
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