Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/mwo1vcrzly
Preventing the Founding of a German-Language Primary School in Rijeka
Angela Ilić
orcid.org/0000-0002-9949-018X
; Institute for German Culture and History at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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Abstract
Linguistic and national diversity were hallmarks of the population in the port city
of Rijeka in the late Habsburg period. This was to a certain extent reflected in the local
schools too, in relation to the languages taught there, although new laws issued by the
Hungarian government in Budapest foresaw an ever-growing role of the Hungarian
language in education.
This article focuses on the initiative by several influential and wealthy residents
who proposed the establishing of a society that was supposed to be entrusted with founding and maintaining a German-language primary school in Rijeka. Budapest viewed
the application with suspicion, as it was seemingly oriented against the primacy of the
Hungarian language, intended by the central authorities. Based on archival material,
a reconstruction and analysis of the correspondence of the members of the society with
the governor of Rijeka and the Hungarian prime minister is offered..
Keywords
Rijeka, school system, Germans; education policies; Hungarian rule.
Hrčak ID:
333929
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Publication date:
21.7.2025.
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