Original scientific paper
The impact of the Collegium Romanum on philosophical and scientific education in Dubrovnik
Mijo Korade
; Filozofsko teološki institut SJ, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The Collegium Romanum played an important part in educating some of the most prominent Dubrovnik scientists and generations of Dubrovnik intelectuals. Eminent professors of the Collegium Romanum, astronomers and mathematicians Christopher Clavius, Christopher Grienberger and Orazio Borgondio, a polymath Athanasius Kircher and innovator in philosophy Giovan Battista Tolomei were paragons to numerous Dubrovnik intelectuals. Stjepan Gradić and Savin Zamagna were its students, whereas Nikola Nalješković, Nikola Gučetić, Marin Getaldić, Benedikt Stay and Đuro Baglivi cooperated with its professors.
All Dubrovnik Jesuits studied at the Collegium Romanum. Many of them stand out in philosophy and defend their final year theses in public at the end of the final term. Ruđer and Baro Bošković taught mathematics, Frano Martinović, Bernard Zuzorić, Marin Stay and Ivo Lukarević taught philosophy; Rajmund Kunić and Ivo Lukarević taught rhetorics. As many as 28 Dubrovnik Jesuits, former students of the Collegium Romanum taught philosophy at various Italian Universities, at the Illyrian Collegium at Loretto or at their hometown. Ruđer Bošković, Stjepan Bašić, Ignjat Đurđević, Ivan Luka Zuzorić and Ivan M. Matijašević wrote
philosophical and scientific works. Writers such as Bernard Zamagna, Rajmund Kunić, Ivo Lukarević, Benedikt Rogačić, Dživo Gučetić jr. discussed the same problems in their literary works. Scientific education at the Collegium Romanum had its effect on the Dubrovnik Collegium, where Roman students gave lectures.
Keywords
Collegium Romanum; Jesuits; education; Dubrovnik; philosophy; science
Hrčak ID:
240905
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Publication date:
30.6.1991.
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