Stručni rad
Founding of the Croatian association for support, that is, Napredak
Andrija Nikić
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When Bosnia and Herzegovina was subjected to Austro-Hungarian rule in 1878, the Croatian people realized they were, in a manner of speaking, without an intelligentsia, with the exception of the clergy, mainly Franciscans. The new government started taking charge of the Franciscan schools and introduced a joint program, while the Franciscans merely taught Catechism. The Austrian authorities employed foreigners in educational institutions and administration offices. The issue of producing a domestic intelligentsia became even more pressing following the awarding of scholarships by the government in Sarajevo to a secondary school in Mostar. Namely, not one Croatian graduate received a scholarship. This incited the Franciscans of Herzegovina, lead by Friar Radoslav Glavaš in the Mostar seminary, to establish a charitable organization for the support and the education of gifted and impoverished Croatian youth on January 7, 1902. After hearing of their success in Mostar, the Croatian intelligentsia founded a similar charitable organization in Sarajevo in November of 1902. In 1907 the two organizations merged into the Croatian Cultural Society Napredak. The Society grew through the years both in number and organizationally. The Communist authorities suppressed it in 1949. In 1990 it again began its activities. This article, based on documents taken from the archives of the Franciscans of Herzegovina and other written material, is a contribution to the research into the motives for founding the Society and its development to date.
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Datum izdavanja:
3.12.2002.
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