Original scientific paper
The building of a modern university in the Habsburg Monarchy. Higher education reforms in the 18th and 19th centuries
Vlasta Švoger
; Croatian Institute of History
Abstract
The paper presents the process of modernizing universities in the Habsburg Monarchy that began in the mid-18th century and continued in the 19th century, with an emphasis on the reforms initiated in 1848. It analyzes how notional influences from other European countries, notably Prussia, were received in the context of higher education programs modernization in the Habsburg Monarchy. It describes the political context that enabled the implementation of the so-called Thun’s university reform and its main characteristics with respect to the organization of the universities (faculties) and their teaching programs, and management of the universities (faculties). This reform shaped the modern higher education practice and placed the universities under state control. Designed in the revolutionary years of 1848 and 1849, the university reform in the Monarchy resulted in modern universities, which still exist today after certain minor modifications. The second part of the paper presents the process of establishing the modern University of Zagreb in the context of modernizing the higher education system in the Habsburg Monarchy.
Keywords
Habsburg Monarchy; university reform; higher education reform; Thun’s university reform; 1760-1874; University of Zagreb
Hrčak ID:
290158
URI
Publication date:
25.6.2020.
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