Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/mzvkptog09
The Croatian Academic Youth and the Cult of Petar Zrinski and Fran Krsto Frankopan in the Late 19th and the Early 20th Centuries
Tihana Luetić
orcid.org/0000-0002-1590-8420
; Institute of Historical and Social Sciences, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Abstract
The celebration of the Zrinski-Frankopan Cult was the primary focus of the right-wing fraction among local student youth, both in Zagreb and at the Austrian universities. Over the time, under the influence of changed political circumstances in the country, i.e. the change of the ruling party, the idea of celebrating the anniversary of Zrinski and Frankopan spread to other student groups, including the so-called progressive youth and Yugoslav nationalists. A significant number of university students, primarily supporting the anti-Austrian idea within this Cult, in the period immediately before the First World War, fuelled the idea of Croatia leaving the framework of the Monarchy. In the group of the Yugoslav nationalist youth, supporters of national unitarism, Zrinski and Frankopan began to take characteristics of the Yugoslav martyrs.
All student actions related to the commemoration of the anniversaries of Zrinski and Frankopan, which included memorial masses, academies, lectures and celebrations in the concluding decades of the 19th century, were considered an anti-dynasty act, while in the early 20th century, i.e. as of 1906, when the Croatian-Serbian coalition took power, a change in the public discourse towards the Zrinski-Frankopan Cult took place. Students held their manifestations publicly, together with other political and public dignitaries.
Keywords
Zrinski and Frankopan families; students; University of Zagreb; 19th century; 20th century
Hrčak ID:
316742
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Publication date:
31.12.2023.
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