Original scientific paper

Croatian Regions in Ján Kollár's Travelogue

Marijan Šabić ; Croatian Historical Institute, Department of History of Slavonia, Srijem and Baranja, Slavonski Brod

Abstract

In his first travelogue titled Cestopis obsahující cestu do Horní Italie a odtud přes Tyrolsko a Baworsko, se zwláštním ohledem na slawjanské žiwly roku 1841 konanau a sepsanau od Jana Kollára, Ján Kollár describes his travel through Croatian regions and short sojourns in Zagreb, Karlovac and Rijeka. Using four dominant themes, namely, historicism, Pan-Slavism, the bourgeois elite and the Croatian folk, the author of the article analyzes the Croatian motifs in Ján Kollár's travelogue, and demonstrates that the Croatian episode functions in it as a separate thematic and stylistic piece and somewhat of an introduction to the principal part of the travelogue in which Kollár intends to collect evidence of the ancient Slavic settlement of Apenine peninsula and about the Slavic roots of Italian culture thus placing the Croatian reception of this work in the context of the influence of Kollár's ideas in ninteenth-century Croatia.

Keywords

Ján Kollár; the ninteenth-century travelogue; Pan-Slavism; Ján Kollár and the Croats

Hrčak ID:

225914

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/225914

Publication date:

7.10.2019.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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