Original scientific paper
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF FRAN BARAC
Ivica Zvonar
; Historical Sciences Division Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The subject of this research was the role of priest, theologian and politician Fran Barac (1872-1940) in the political life of contemporary Croatia. His scholarly, professional and organisational work left a pro-found impression on the Croatian people and the Catholic Church. Barac was professor of the Faculty of Theology (from 1911. to 1937.), dean of the Faculty of Theology (1913./1914.; 1922./1923.) and head of the University of Zagreb (1915./1916.). He was a member of the Croatian Union (Hrvatska Zajednica) and member of parliament of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (SHS). In the ecclesiastical life of Croatia Barac was an important factor, because he was involved in the work of Croatian Divinity Academy (Hrvatska bogoslovska akademija), and Archdiocesan seminary, and played an important role in the development of Catholic press in Croatia. In this work the author using archival sources, newspapers (Srijem, Hrvat and Hrvatska sloga), and existing scholarly literature, analyses the most important periods of Fran Barac's life, with particular emphasis on his political activity. Special attention in the article is placed on Barac's relations with political organizations Jugoslavenski Odbor (Yugoslav Commitee) and Srpski presbiro (Serbian Press-bureau).
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208973
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Publication date:
14.10.2002.
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