Povijesni prilozi, Vol. 21 No. 22, 2002.
Original scientific paper
The First Students of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Royal University of Francis Joseph I in Zagreb
Tihana Luetić
; Zavod za povijest HAZU u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Republika Hrvatska
Abstract
The issue of university education for women in Croatia was definitely positively solved when in September 1901 women were allowed to enrol as full-time students at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University in Zagreb by the decree of the Department for Theology and Teaching of the Royal Croatian-Slavonian-Dalmatian country government. As we have seen, teachers of the female boarding school in Zagreb, the first female education institution in Croatia where girls could get higher general education to prepare for studies,
were the first to encourage the discussion about the university female education. Since 1895, women could be admitted to the University, but only as part-time students. It has to be emphasised that these important steps forward in female education happened shortly after other European Universities had opened their doors to women. In the then atmosphere about the female education, the most acceptable opinion is that the study was almost an ideal solution for those girls from the upper classes who did not get married and thus would get a profession which will bring them financial independence. But, at the same time, in the then professional part of the public, there were also various positive and negative opinions about reasons why women should not be admitted to the university,
about their intellectual abilities, about subjects for which they were more or less “predetermined”, etc. In any case, from quite frequent newspaper discussions, it can be seen that the society still became sensible about the issue of the female education.
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Publication date:
11.11.2002.
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