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Studying at the Vienna Court. Collegium of St Augustin and Formation of Ecclesiastical Elite in the Croatian Lands
Ivana Horbec
orcid.org/0000-0002-4898-2555
; Hrvatski institut za povijest, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Based on the information from the archives of the Collegium of St Augustin, a post-graduate educational institution of the laic clergy, which operated in the period between 1816 and 1918, and at which 105 students from Croatia and Dalmatia have studied, the author of the article reconstructs some general characteristics of the post-graduate studies of theologians from the dioceses of Zagreb and Zadar during their education in Vienna. The author has analyzed the circumstances and conditions of acceptance of the students at the Collegium, the curriculum of the study, and students’ practices. Thus, the author has determined the obligations of the students and the correlation between the accomplishment and general evaluation during the study with the later career success of the analyzed student population. All the results are statistically examined and presented within graphs. Within the analysis, the author paid special attention to certain aspects that were emphasized by the Vienna Court in the foundational charter, and these aspects were: the influence of the Collegium on the formation of the ecclesiastical elite in the dioceses of Zagreb and Zadar metropolises, role of the Collegium in the management of professorship positions at the theologian studies, and the role of Vienna Collegium in the processes of dissemination and transfer of scientific and social ideas, as well as intellectual growth, throughout the entire Austrian Empire. The results of the research have demonstrated that success during the studies at the Collegium extensively influenced the further clerical career of the cadets and that up to the mid-twentieth century majority of them held important positions within the Catholic Church, the academic community, and in the local societies. Moreover, a significant number of the former students of the Collegium developed important political careers, but their political views differed. Thus, one can conclude that the Viennese atmosphere significantly influenced the formation and maturation of the Collegium cadets/students, which consequently resulted in the transfer of ideas and values within, otherwise, quite multicultural Austrian Empire.
Ključne riječi
History of higher education; ecclesiastical history; Collegium of St Augustin; Faculty of Theology in Vienna; 19th century.
Hrčak ID:
219490
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Datum izdavanja:
23.12.2018.
Posjeta: 965 *