Review article
https://doi.org/10.21857/9e31lhvjgm
Ivan Fiamin’s Correspondence with Franjo Rački (1861–1889)
Maja Polić
orcid.org/0000-0002-3929-6991
; Croatian Academy of Science and Arts, Institute for Historical and Social Sciences in Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
Tea Dimnjašević
orcid.org/0000-0002-9330-2774
; Rijeka, Croatia
Abstract
The paper tackles the content of the correspondence of Ivan Fiamin, priest in Rijeka,
addressed to Dr. Franjo Rački, canon and politician. Ivan Fiamin (1833–1890) completed
his primary and secondary education in the former Rijeka, after which he completed
the studies at the Vienna Pazmaneum. He first spent a certain period of time in
Senj, after which he moved to Rijeka, where he remained until his death. He began his
literary work at the instigation of his former grammar school teacher Fran Kurelac,
following thereby the philological views of Kurelac’s Rijeka philological school. Not
only during Fiamin’s upbringing, but also much later, Kurelac was his mentor and his
support in dealing with numerous issues, particularly the ones of national character,
which were not at all insignificant. Fiamin’s correspondence addressed to Franjo Rački
consists of twenty-four letters and is in the safekeeping at the Archives of the Croatian
Academy of Sciences and Arts. The letters tackle Fiamin’s literary work, career, school
issues, care for students, etc. The objective of the paper is to illuminate – using thereby
the historical critical method, the analysis and synthesis methods and the descriptive
method – individual segments of Fiamin’s life and work.
Keywords
Ivan Fiamin; Franjo Rački; Rijeka; correspondence.
Hrčak ID:
250183
URI
Publication date:
7.1.2021.
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