Mihajlo Rostohar

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Mihajlo Rostohar
Mihajlo Rostohar
Born(1878-06-30)June 30, 1878
DiedAugust 5, 1966(1966-08-05) (aged 88)
Golek, Krško, Yugoslavia
NationalityAustria-Hungary, Yugoslavia
Occupation(s)psychologist, author and educator
Known forplaying an important role during the creation of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and the establishment of the University of Ljubljana.

Mihajlo Rostohar (July 30, 1878 – August 5, 1966) was a Slovenian psychologist, author and educator, who played an important role during the creation of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. Together with Ivan Hribar and Danilo Majaron, he had a crucial role in the establishment of the University of Ljubljana.

Biography

He was born in a peasant family in

Austro-Hungarian Duchy of Carniola and baptized Michael Rostohar.[1] He attended high school (gymnasium) in Ljubljana and Kranj.[2] He studied philosophy at the University of Graz with Alexius Meinong and later in Vienna, where he graduated in 1905. After working for a year as a supplementary high school teacher in Villach, he decided to pursue an academic career, following the advice of the Austrian philosopher Friedrich Jodl.[3] He continued his studies in Prague, Leipzig (under the supervision of Wilhelm Wundt), Halle and Berlin. He obtained his habilitation at the Charles University
of Prague.

After participating in the

Bohemia and Moravia in 1939, he returned to Slovenia. After World War Two, he went back to Czechoslovakia, but returned to Yugoslavia
in 1948.

He died in Golek near Krško in Slovenia.

An elementary school in Krško is named after him as well as roads. One of his busts stands in front of the University of Ljubljana, in recognition of his important role in forming the university, creating its Faculty of Psychology and having declared independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire from the University's balcony.

Political career

Rostohar was active in the Slovene public life. Together with many other

national liberal
positions.

During the First Balkan War, he publicly supported the idea of an autonomous Albania, with similar arguments as the Austria-Hungarian diplomacy. Because of this, he was attacked by the Slovene language press.[5] In Rostohar's defense, the writer Ivan Cankar produced his famous lecture Slovenes and Yugoslavs, delivered in Ljubljana in 1913.

At the end of

political rally on Congress Square
for the next day. Despite the fact that soldiers and officers were not allowed to participate in the rally on October 29, 1918, around 200 soldiers and officers were in the crowd. Mihajlo Rostohar climbed to the balcony, where leaders of the rally spoke to the gathered people, and shouted:

“We soldiers renounce Austria and swear obedience to the state of our nation, to Yugoslavia!”[6]

Then, on the night of October 29, 1918, he gathered some other Slovenian soldiers and officers, and also soldiers and officers from the 53rd regiment from Zagreb who got off the train that was transporting them through Ljubljana and joined them. Together with prisoners of war from Serbia and Russia they had liberated, there were around 600 of them. Rostohar used them to surround the barracks in Kodeljevo and disarm a battalion of the Austro-Hungarian army from Hungary on the same night.[7]

After the first success in taking over control of the Ljubljana, Slovenian officers and soldiers were very much afraid of the army under control of the

Svetozar Borojević to go peacefully home, and not to start conflicts. Those activities helped in the peaceful take over of the control of Ljubljana.[8]

Psychologist career

Rostohar studied in Vienna and

Second World War
till 1948. At the
Masaryk University he established the Institute of Psychology in 1926 from where came the ideas and principles of the Gestalt psychology. Rostohar also followed the ideas of the Leipzig school (Wilhelm Wundt). In the book Psychology as a Science of Subjective Reality, he evolved the term psychological structure which he considered to be the basic creative and dynamic principle, oriented toward the formation of psychological wholes (Rostohar, 1950, p. 116). Gestalt-oriented articles of the Brno’s group were mostly released in the journal Psychology which was published from 1935 to 1950. It was edited by Rostohar until 1948. Rostohar participated in the Brno’s Society for Research in Child; he became its chairman in 1926. Rostohar was a main organizer of the pedological congresses where members of the Psychological Institute could present their Gestalt-oriented studies. In 1937, Rostohar presented his research on a child’s creative fantasy and its relationship to the apperception of new images.

From 1948, Rostohar taught at the University of Ljubljana where he was head and thought until his death. of the Psychology department. He was author of many works published in

Slovenian
.

Rostohar used his professional education to analyze the moral meaning of nation. He believed that the core of nationality is the awareness of belonging and the feeling that such awareness generates.[11]

Selected works

  • Rostohar M., Uvod v znanstveno mišljenje (1910)
  • Rostohar M., Theorie hypotetickeho soudu- Theory of Hypothetical Judgement (1910)
  • Rostohar M., Nationality and its moral significance (1913)
  • Rostohar M., Experementalni zkoumanf o reprodukci barevnych kvalit. Lekafske rozhledy (1914)
  • Rostohar M., O synaesthesiich sluchovych I. Lekafske rozhledy (Praha) (1914)
  • Rostohar M., O synaesthesiich sluchovych II. Lekafske rozhledy (Praha) (1915)
  • Rostohar M., Za novi socializem (1923)
  • Rostohar M., O vyvoji detskych pfedstav. Tfetl sjezd pro vy'zkum dftete. Praha (1927)
  • Rostohar M., Studiez vyvojové psyhologie. Dil 1 (1928)
  • Rostohar M., L'evolution de la representation visuelle a partir de l'impression initiate. L'annee psychologique, Paris (1931)
  • Rostohar M., Jak se vyviji u deti konkretnf pojem pfedmetu. Ctvrty' sjezd pro vyzkum di tete. Bratislava (1931)
  • Rostohar M., Psychologcké zaklady počatečniho čteni s praktickym návodem ke čteni (1934)
  • Rostohar M., Struktura u duševnem živote, Psychologic Brno (1935)
  • Rostohar M., O psychologicke pojeti pfedstavy. Psychologie (1937)
  • Psyhologie sociàlni (1948)
  • Rostohar M., Psychopatologie (1948)
  • Rostohar M., Psychologie jako veda o subjektivni skotečnosti (1950)
  • Rostohar M., Obča psiholgija (1951)
  • Rostohar M., Socialna psihologija (1952)
  • Rostohar M., Pedopsihologija (1953)
  • Rostohar M., Stavek in misel. Razprave Slovenske akademij znanosti in umetnosti, Ljubljana (1953)
  • Rostohar M., Osnove obče psihologije (1964)
  • Rostohar M, Osnove obce psihologije. Ljubljana (1964)
  • Rostohar M., Osnove socialne psihologije (1965)
  • Rostohar M., Psihologija (1966)
  • Rostohar M., Strukture u duševnom životu. Zbomik saopcenja i plenarning predavanja, Zagreb (1966)

References

  1. ^ Geburts- und Tauf-Buch. Leskovec pri Krškem. 1875–1893. p. 44. Retrieved October 21, 2023.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ "Slovenski Biografski Leksikon: Rostohar Mihajlo". Archived from the original on 2011-08-23. Retrieved 2011-03-13.
  3. ^ "Slovenski Biografski Leksikon: Rostohar Mihajlo". Archived from the original on 2011-08-23. Retrieved 2011-03-13.
  4. ^ Irena Gantar Godina, Masaryk in masarykovstvo pri Slovencih (Ljubljana: Slovenska matica, 1987).
  5. ^ Ude, Lojze (1972). Slovenci in jugoslovenska skupnost (in Slovenian). Yugoslavia: Založba Obzorja. p. 62. Teda je prišel Rostohar na idejo, da brani avtonomijo Albanije - z argumenti avstrijske diplomacije. Slovenski tisk ga silovito napadel, posebno Dan.
  6. ^ Švajncer, Janez. "Prva slovenska vojska 1918-1919" (in Slovenian). Slovenia: Tukaj je Slovenia. Archived from the original on March 15, 2012. Retrieved January 6, 2011. Slovenski oficirji so spodbudili poroènika Rostoharja, da je tudi sam odšel na balkon in spregovoril. Ko je dobil besedo je po kratkem nagovoru potegnil sabljo ter zavpil: »Mi vojaki odrekamo pokoršèino Avstriji in prisegamo zvestobo svoji narodni državi Jugoslaviji!«
  7. ^ JAN KRLÍN (2006). "Narodni svet v Ljubljani leta 1918" (PDF) (in Slovenian). Retrieved January 6, 2011. . Rostohar je s pomočjo revolucionarnega odbora slovenskih oficirjev v rezervi, topništva 53. hrvaškega polka in osvobojenih ruskih in srbskih ujetnikov v noči z 29. na 30. oktober 1918 obkolil madžarsko vojašnico na Kodeljevem (mestni del Ljubljane) in prisilil vojsko h kapitulaciji.[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ JAN KRLÍN (2006). "Narodni svet v Ljubljani leta 1918" (PDF) (in Slovenian). Retrieved January 6, 2011. Naslednja nevarnost, ki je grozila slovenskim oblastem, je bila soška vojska maršala Boroeviča. Po Rostoharjevih spominih sodeč je dal oficirski odbor v Ljubljani natisniti letake v različnih jezikih, ki so bili namenjeni vojakom soške vojske, da bi se v miru vrnili domov in se ne bi več bojevali.[permanent dead link]
  9. ^ "Jurij Perovšek, Polemika Uščeničnik — Rostohar o veri, narodnosti in etiki v letah 1912—1913" (PDF) (in Slovenian). p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-04. Retrieved January 6, 2011. Mihajlo Rostohar (1878—196) je studiral filosofijo na Dunaju, nato v Gradcu pri profesoru Alexiusu Meinongu. Leta 1906 je bil na Dunaju promoviran za doktora filozofije, z disertacijo Über die Hypothese. Ihre wissenschaftliche Bedeutung.
  10. . Rostohar, of Slovenian origin, came to Brno from Prague, where he had become an associate professor at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in 1911, having defended his work on logic, Theory of Hypothetical Judgement in 1910
  11. . Rostohar analyzed the moral meaning of nationality, he believed that the essence of nationality lies in awareness of belonging and in the feelings that such awareness generates.

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