International conference Franz Vaniček and Historiography on Military Border (Slavonski Brod, Croatia, October 23rd-24st 2015)
An international conference on the subject Franz Vaniček and Historiography on Military Border was held in Slavonski Brod 23.-24. October 2014. The organizer was Croatian Institute of History – Department for the History of Slavonia, Srijem and Baranja. Researchers from Croatia, Austria, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegowina, Serbia and Rumania participated at the conference.
Two team members participated at the conference. Dr. Vlasta Švoger presented a paper titled Publicist Activity of Franz Vaniček in Zagreb Periodicals with analysis of Vaniček’s essays on history of education and contemporary state of Croatia’s school system. Dr. Dinko Župan presented a paper titled The History of Education as a Theme in Military Frontier Historiography.
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Abstracts:
Dr. Vlasta Švoger, Publicist Activity of Franz Vaniček in Zagreb-based Periodicals
Franz Vaniček published intensively in the period from mid-1830s to early 1890s. During his sixty years of publicist activity he contributed to a number of Austrian, Czech and Croatian papers. Since it would be impossible to analyse his extensive and diverse publicist activity in a single lecture at a scientific conference, this lecture will focus on Vaniček’s publicist activity in Zagreb’s papers between 1848 and the late 1870s (after which he wrote more for Osijek-based papers). His articles were published in distinguished Zagreb papers Agramer Zeitung, Narodne novine and Pozor/ Obzor, Croatian papers with the highest circulation of the time, and they were written in German or Croatian. He 51 mostly wrote about topics associated with the Military Frontier, discussing events from political history based on original sources and analysing social and economic relations in the Frontier’s society. He also published ethnographic reports about parts of the Habsburg Monarchy, again laying an emphasis on the Military Frontier. He wrote about different aspects of Croatian economy, especially about the problems and opportunities for trade development, the development of transport infrastructure (railway line SenjKarlovac-Vinkovci-Zemun, expansion of the port of Senj, construction of the VukovarJaruge canal), and the development of agriculture, also warning about the rise of the new social class, the workers. He also wrote about the Croatian education system, persistently standing up for the preservation of the Monarchy’s unity during the revolutionary years 1848-1849. In accordance with customary journalist practices of the time, he published his articles signed with his name and surname, with the acronym V-k. or V-K., or anonymously with a geographical reference (“from Srijem”, “from the Military Frontier”, “from the Vuka” and so on). His articles contributed to the opening of new topics in the Croatian public, especially to raised awareness about the issues of the Military Frontier and the everyday life of its inhabitants.
Dr. Dinko Župan, The History of Education as a Theme in Military Frontier Historiography
Franjo Tićak was the first to address the history of the Military Frontier’s school system in his booklet Kratka poviest o razvitku pučkog školstva u Hrvatsko-slavonskoj vojnoj krajini [A Brief History of Elementary Education Development at the Croatian-Slavonian Military Frontier] (Zagreb, 1880). However, his review of the Military Frontier’s education system was just a superficial summary of certain events associated with the history of education at the Military Frontier. Ivan Martinović was the first serious researcher of the Frontier’s education system, having published a number of specialised articles and two books about the history of education at the Military Frontier, Povijesne crtice o školstvu Brodske pukovnije i Brodskog okružja [Historical Sketches about the School System of the Brod Regiment and the Brod Surroundings] (Zagreb, 1912) and Hrvatsko-slavonske krajiške zemaljske školske komisije i školski ravnatelji [School Committees and Principals of the Croatian and Slavonian Military Frontier Provincial Schools] (Zagreb, 1915). Antun Cuvaj addressed the topic of education at the Military Frontier at the beginning of the 20th century as well, having published a number of important documents and data about the history of the education system in the Military Frontier in 11 tomes of his Građa za povijest školstva kraljevina Hrvatske i Slavonije od najstarijih vremena do danas [Sources for the History of the Education System in the Kingdoms of Croatia and Slavonia from the Earliest Times to the Present] (Zagreb, 1907-1912). Ivica Golec put an end to the pause 56 in systematic research of Military Frontier’s education that had lasted for almost a whole century with his book Povijest školstva u Petrinji 1700.-2000. [The History of Education in Petrinja, 1700-2000] (Petrinja, 2000).
Powerpoint presentation (in Croatian)
