Professional paper
Salona Christiana – The Written Legacies of Rev. Frane Bulić In the Library of the Central Theological Seminary In Split
Josip Dukić
; Katolički bogoslovni fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu, Split, Hrvatska
Abstract
Reverend Frane Bulić (Vranjic, 4 October 1846 – Zagreb, 29 July 1934) is among the best known priests of the Church of Split, taking a key position in the Croatian archaeology. The most fruitful work of Rev. Frane were the excavations, protection, studying and publishing
Salonitan and other monuments. For this work, Duje Rendić-Miočević called Rev. Frane »the Croatian Schliemann«. Before his death in 1934, Rev. Frane bequested to the Central Theological Seminary in Split (Centralno bogoslovno sjemenište), where he had received
his theological education (1965-1869), that is, to the its Library that is now managed by the Catholic Faculty of Theology (Katolički bogoslovni fakultet), 28 volumes of manuscripts and printed materials related to Salona, but to other similar topics as well. Unfortunately, one
volume has been lost, wherefore there are 27 volumes in the Library now. The volumes are arranged chronologically, from 1880 till 1934. In one of his letters, Rev. Frane wrote: »Since they do not want to link Split with Europe by any kind of railway, may it be linked by my correspondence.« Since this legacy is hardly available to researchers because of the damages it has suffered, in 2014, 80 years after Frane's death, commenced was the project of arranging his entire legacy, participated by several institutions of Split. The project bearers are the
Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Split, and collaborators are the Archaeological Museum in Split, the History Department of the Faculty of Humanities (Filozofski fakultet, Odjel za povijest) of the University of Split, the Historic Monuments Conservation
Department in Split of the Cultural Heritage Administration of the Ministry of Culture (Ministartvo kulture, Uprava za zaštitu kulturne baštine, Konzervatorski odjel u Splitu) and the Zvonimir Cultural Centre (Dom kulture Zvonimir) in Solin. Two phases of the projects have
been completed and the third is under way. By the summer of 2017, students of the Catholic Theological Faculty scanned and listed the materials in the Theological Seminary Library as well as two volumes in the Archaeological Museum in Split
Keywords
Frane Bulić; Salona Christiana - legacy; Central Theological Seminary in Split; Catholic Faculty of Theology in Split; Archaeological Museum in Split; Faculty of Humanities in Split - History Department; Cultural Heritage Conservation Department in Split; Zvonimir Cultural Centre in Solin
Hrčak ID:
186141
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Publication date:
8.9.2017.
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