Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.53745/ccp.45.88.5
More About Matija Mesić and Czechs (Ten Letters 1854 – 1878)
Marcel Černý
orcid.org/0000-0003-0916-1989
; Slavic Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Marijan Šabić
; Croatian Institute of History - Branch for the History of Slavonia, Srijem and Baranja, Slavonski Brod, Croatia
Abstract
This contribution reveals ten new letters that Matija Mesić wrote to Vàclav Vladivoj Tomek, Hermengild Jireček, and Konstantin Jireček. Today these letters are kept in the archives in Czech Republic and Bulgaria, and they complement up to now published Mesić’s correspondence with his Czech contemporaries. The authors explain the circumstances in which these ten letters were written and emphasize some new moments that help to better understand the context of the previously published Mesić correspondence. This new correspondence reveals that Mesić contacted and collaborated with Tomek frequently, and especially interesting is their discussion and Mesić’s dilemmas regarding his editorial work on Krčelić’s Annuae. Moreover, this new correspondence reveals that Mesić was in contact with several members of Jireček family: he was writing not only to Josef Jireček and his father-in-law Pavel Josef Šafařik, but also to Josef’s brother Hermenegild and son Konstantin. All of them helped Mesić in his scholarly work in various ways. For example, he asked them to help and consult regarding the organization of the newly opened Zagreb university, and at the same time, he collaborated with each of them on their projects. The last of these ten letters were written to Konstantin Jireček on July 18, 1878, which is less than five months before Mesić has passed away (December 8, 1878). This letter witness that Mesić, almost to his very end, remained an active affiliate of the Prague historiographic academic circle.
Keywords
Matija Mesić; Croatian-Czech relations in the 19th century; Václav Vladivoj Tomek; Hermenegild Jireček; Konstantin Jireček; correspondence.
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Publication date:
18.12.2021.
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