Review article
Cultural-Education and Religious Conditions in the Virovitica County during the Great District Prefect J. J. Strossmayer 1861-1862
Dražen Kušen
; Državni arhiv, Osijek
Abstract
The time in which the service of the great district prefect of Virovitica was entrusted to the bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer has to be considered in a wider temporal and spatial context. Only just in particular matters a viewpoint can be narrowed to more important distinctiveness of the given field and given time frame. The general point is presented by political and social circumstances of the Croatian countries in the Hapsburg monarchy in the middle of the 19th century. In the time of restoring a constitutional order in the kingdoms of Croatia and Slavonia in 1860, and under influence of the then Austrian absolutism and Hungarian hegemony, a special attention of the Croatian political public was directed to counties and their political and current role. In this sense Strossmayer too, as the great district prefect of Virovitica, following the efforts of other Croatian politicians and intellectuals of the time, saw his political role not only in the administrative and economical field but equally important in the domain of culture, education and religion. That tendency in the Croatian countries of the time showed itself in a political struggle for the Croatian language as a symbol of Croatian identity and in founding of the most important national institutions as well as in establishing a future direction of the Croatian cultural, educational, economical and religious progress ‘’in capite et in membris’’. Restoring a constitutional order in the monarchy, jurisdiction of Regency Council for Croatia and Slavonia in Vienna and conclusions of the Croatian Diet from 15 April 1861, brought novelties which reflected in education and culture on a national scale and then in the county of Virovitica itself. The Catholic Church as the largest and the most influential religious community dominantly shaped that space in a religious but also in a cultural-educational sense. However, in the same area the Serbian Orthodox Church, the Evangelical Churches of Augsburg and the Helvetian denomination and also the Jewish religious community were all active. Broadly surveying the given theme in a wider Croatian context, it represents the cultural-educational and religious conditions in the county of Virovitica in the time of the great district prefect J. J. Strossmayer in their substantial and contextual multilevel-conformity
Keywords
culture; education; religion; school; church; the county of Virovitica; the great district prefect
Hrčak ID:
21810
URI
Publication date:
27.12.2007.
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