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BISHOP STROSSMAYER AND THE LANGUAGE ISSUE IN THE SCHOOLS OF »HUNGARIAN ROYAL AND STATE RAILWAYS« IN CROATIA
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The article presents the attitude of Bishop Strossmayer regarding language policy of Hungarian railway schools, which were founded on more important railway stations by »Hungarian Royal and state railways«. Justifying that initiative by stating that it is the case of schools of »private enterprise owned by the state«, the Direction of Hungarian railway schools requested that Hungarian language should be language of instruction for all subjects, including catechism. Bishop Strossmayer considered this initiative, on the one
hand, as an attempt on magyarisation, violation of Croatian autonomy and creation of exterritorial areas in such schools and persistently demanded from Croatian government to forbid their activity. On the other hand, he saw in the foundation of such schools and the policy they advocated an usurpation, a tendency to deprive him as the bishop, the head of the local Church, of his inalienable right of deciding, in matters pertaining to confessional
matters, who may be a teacher of catechism, catechism textbook which may be used, and language of instruction. He considered this right to be the area of his competence and usual practice of the Church, but Hungarian railway schools ignored it completely. He
saw in that also denigration of the dignity of Church and her mission. Thus, by defending the right he had as bishop, Strossmayer in fact defended Croatian autonomy against magyarisation.
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Bishop Strossmayer; Hungarian railway schools; Croatian language
Hrčak ID:
69898
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Datum izdavanja:
15.12.2010.
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