Original scientific paper
MATIJA MESIĆ AND THE LAW ACADEMY IN ZAGREB - THE ACTIVITY OF THE ACADEMY AND TEACHING OF HISTORY AND CANON-LAW (1856-1874)
Dalibor Čepulo
; Faculty of Law, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Between the 1850s and 1874 Matija Mesić was a teacher of the history of Habsburg Monarchy and Canon law at the Law Academy in Zagreb, and from 1871 to 1874 the director of the Academy, the only degree-granting educational institution in Croatia in the period 1850-1874. He left traces in cultural history of Croatia, especially concerning the foundation of the University of Zagreb. Particularly interesting is his part in creating the educational contents of Croatian History. Textbooks and archival material show that Mesić, at the end of the 1860s and the beginning of the 1870s, shifted the main points of presenting the contents of the subject History of Habsburg Monarchy. This subject was conceived in the 1850s and its starting point was the idea about the integral Austrian »national« history. But the archival material from 1872 and 1873 shows that Mesić in this period at the latest accentuated the essential contents of Croatian History associated with the important events in the Habsburg Monarchy. That shift is complementary with other political and cultural processes in Croatia at that time.
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214022
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Publication date:
4.3.1998.
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