Tadija Smičiklas
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Tadija "Tade" Smičiklas (1 October 1843 – 8 June 1914) was a Croatian historian and politician. He was a professor at the Zagreb university and a member of the Croatian Academy. A member of the Illyrianist People's Party, he supported the independence of Croatia from the Austrian Empire. He authored the first history book on Croatia and laid the foundation of Croatian historiography.
Early life
Smičiklas was born in
Education
In September 1843 Tadija enrolled at the Greek Catholic Seminary in Zagreb, where he would stay for nine years.[6] After finishing his studies there, he went on to study history and geography in the Imperial capital Vienna in 1864–69.[1]
Career
He began his professorial career at the gymnasium in
He was a member of the
In the 1886/87 academic year he became the dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and soon after was selected as the rector of the entire university. From 1875 he was an alderman in Matica hrvatska, and from 1889 to 1891 he was its president. In 1900 he was selected as president of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts and he remained in this post until his death.
In 1905 he retired from public life. He was an honoured citizen of Zagreb, Varaždin and Karlovac.
Smičiklas published the first history of Croatia (2 volumes, 1879–1882) which was scholarly, critical, comprehensive and founded on reliable authenticated evidence that, together with his other work, laid the foundation for Croatian scholarly historiography and contributed to the strengthening of the idea of continuity of Croatian statehood and independence.[7]
Works
- Život i djela Vjekoslava Babukića (1876)
- Spomen knjiga Matice Hrvatske
- Obrana i razvitak hrvatske narodne ideje od 1790. do 1835.
- Život i djela Ivana Kukuljevića Sakcinskog
- Život i djela dra. Franje Račkoga (1855)
References
- Smičiklas' biography, at the University of Zagreb website
External links
Notes
- ^ a b Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung. Vol. 36. Hermann Böhlaus. 1915. p. 217.
- ^ Lazo M. Kostić (1964). Vekovna razdvojenost Srba i Hrvata. Srpska narodna odbrana u Australiji. p. 30.
- ^ a b Hrvatska prosvjeta. Vol. 1. Kolo hrvatskih književnika. 1914. p. 351.
- ISBN 978-90-5201-297-1.
- ISBN 978-1-134-30131-7.
- ^ a b Zbornik OPZZPDZ HAZU. Vol. 18. HAZU. 2000. pp. 18–.
- ^ Miroslav Kurelac (2001) "Tadija Smičiklas as Historian and his Scholarly Conceptions" in Papers and Proceedings of the Department of Historical Research of the Institute of Historical and Social Research of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Vol. 18