Original scientific paper

The Reform of Higher Education in the Habsburg Monarchy and the Emergence of the Modern University of Zagreb

Vlasta Švoger orcid.org/0000-0002-5674-4784 ; Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The article offers an overview of the development of higher education in the Habsburg Monarchy during the long 19th century. Ideological influences from other European countries and their reception in the context of modernisation of higher education in the Habsburg Monarchy, as well as the course and social‑political context of so‑called Thun’s reform of university that formed modern higher education and put universities in the Monarchy under the control of the State, are analysed. Furthermore, the main characteristics of the development of higher education in Croatia in the context of modernisation of the system of higher education of the Habsburg Monarchy are presented and the process of preparation and founding of the modern University of Zagreb is analysed and followed by a review of the role of Catholic clergy in the aforementioned processes.

Keywords

modernisation and reform of university; 19th century; Habsburg Monarchy; modern University of Zagreb.

Hrčak ID:

238356

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/238356

Publication date:

28.5.2020.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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