Original scientific paper
Prilog poznavanju života i rada Ivana Kostrenčića u Beču: 1868.–1875.
Ivica Zvonar
Abstract
Utilising archival sources and existing scholarly literature, the author analyses the life and activity of Ivan Kostrenčić, when he was a Croatian librarian in the Court Library in Vienna (1868–1875). The article gives a brief commentary on the letters sent to him by Franjo Rački, Josip Juraj Strossmayer, Ivan and Juraj Murgić, and Franjo Marković. Also, this article gives a short commentary on the diary of Ivan Kostrenčić.
Besides those letters, the article deals with five that were sent to Ivan Kostrenčić by Metel Ožegović between 1872 and 1874. They are particularly interesting because they illustrate their collaboration and a certain level of connection that they both felt to their homeland. Also, the article deals with three letters sent to Kostrenčić by Matija Mesić from Zagreb in 1874 and 1875. These letters are now kept in the Archive of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The correspondence between Ožegović, Mesić and Kostrenčić provides in the first place some insight into certain details of their private lives in that period, as well as some information about their social activities.
Keywords
Ivan Kostrenčić; correspondence; Vienna; the nineteenth century
Hrčak ID:
7483
URI
Publication date:
22.12.2006.
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