Original scientific paper
ARTUR BENKO GRADE’S RECOLLECTIONS ON HIS OUSTER FROM THE POST OF BIHAĆ DISTRICT ADMINISTRATOR IN LATE 1918, OR, THE FATE OF A CROATIAN OFFICIAL, SERVING IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA FOR 20 YEARS
Mira Kolar-Dimitrijević
orcid.org/0000-0002-6050-5700
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb – Full Professor (retired)
Abstract
Artur Benko Grado (b. Ogulin, 1875 – d. Zagreb 1946), was a prominent writer and statistician of the interwar period, had its family roots in Peteranec. Like many Croats serving in Bosnia-Herzegovina, he himself served from 1898 to 1918. He was the district administrator of Bijeljina and Bihać district governor and, as such, at the end of the First World War got incarcerated and expelled from Bosnia. Writing this report to Sarajevo National council to exonerate himself, it’s clear from the report how unfair this expulsion was, despite his years of work for the benefit of all nations in Bosnia and his efforts to help the district modernize and improve.
Keywords
Arthur Benko Grado; Bosnia; Bijeljina; Bihać; Administration; year 1918
Hrčak ID:
131417
URI
Publication date:
22.12.2014.
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