A Biographical Note from the Legacy of Pavao Vuk–Pavlović

Abstract

In part of the Vuk–Pavlović legacy, received by the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb on August 1, 2017, after the signing of a donation contract with Stanimir Vuk– Pavlović, the son of Pavao Vuk–Pavlović, one can find, among other things, typescripts of Vuk–Pavlović’s documents which illuminate events, heretofore unknown, regarding Vuk–Pavlović’s university career at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb between 1935 and 1941 when he was suspended, and soon afterward forced to retire. Based on the content of the above–mentioned documents in which Vuk–Pavlović testifies to neglect and humiliation at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb and his illegal removal from his post as Assistant Professor of the same faculty, but also the recollections of his wife Lelja Dobronić, one can see that there were no objective reasons for preventing Vuk–Pavlović’s advancement, but that his fate was decided by the envy and malice of his colleagues, and the largely hostile attitude of the NDH (the Independent State of Croatia) towards the Jews.