{"id":5852,"date":"2021-02-09T11:32:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T10:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/povijest\/osnutak-akademije\/"},"modified":"2021-03-19T16:18:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T15:18:25","slug":"osnutak-akademije","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/povijest\/osnutak-akademije\/","title":{"rendered":"Founding of the Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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In 1860, Josip Juraj Strossmayer, bishop of \u0110akovo and Srijem, took action to found a South Slavic Academy in Zagreb. He presented Josip \u0160ok\u010devi\u0107, the ban (Vice-Roy of Croatia), with a 50,000 florin endowment for the founding of the Academy. He also sent a letter expressing his wish that the Academy should \u201cbring together the best minds (…)\u00a0<\/em>and find a way in which books in the national languages could be produced in the Slavic South; the Academy should also take under its aegis all the areas of human science<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Palaca<\/p>\n

The facade of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts palace Zagreb<\/p>\n

The Academy issue was officially raised by Bishop Strossmayer at the Croatian Parliament session held on 29 April 1861.\u00a0(today THE DAY OF THE CROATIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS)\u00a0<\/strong>Following the bishop’s proposal, the Parliament immediately elected a committee to draw up a statute for the Academy, and define its aims and organization. It was only five years later, on 4 March 1866, that the rules of the Academy, in a considerably changed form, were finally confirmed by Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary. These remained unchanged until the beginning of World War II. During the existence of the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945), the name of the Academy was changed to the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts; in the Socialist Republic of Croatia it resumed its activities under the former name of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts.<\/p>\n

\"Pala\u010da<\/p>\n

Memorial plaque to the construction of the Academic Palace on Zrinjevac<\/p>\n

After the establishment of the independent and democratic Republic of Croatia, a bill concerning the Croatian Academy was proposed by the Academy. The new Croatian Academy Act was passed by the Croatian Parliament on 26 June 1991, confirming the importance of all the activities of the highest institution of sciences and arts in the Republic of Croatia.
\nAlthough the first act concerning the founding of the Academy in Zagreb was passed by the Croatian Parliament as soon as in 1861, its establishment was actually ratified only when its rules, which had been proposed by the Croatian Parliament in changed form as required by the Austrian authorities, were confirmed by the Emperor in his letter of 4 March 1866. After that, the Parliament proposed the first sixteen members of the Academy. In this way, the Academy was finally constituted, both actually and legally. Bishop Strossmayer was elected patron of the Academy, and Franjo Ra\u010dki, a distinguished Croatian historian, its first president.<\/p>\n

Under Strossmayer and Ra\u010dki, the Academy became an eminent institution of learning, which collaborated with well-established European academies. Strossmayer called the Academy Yugoslav (meaning ‘Southern Slav’) because he wanted to promote the development of sciences and culture of all the South Slavic nations, including the Bulgarians. The Academy in Zagreb, however, has always been Croatian in its membership and its activities. Besides, soon after the foundation of the Zagreb Academy, the Serbian and Bulgarian Academies were established, so that the idea that the Academy in Zagreb was an institution which could bring together all the South Slavic nations became impracticable. All the publishing activities of Zagreb’s Academy have been primarily and permanently focused on the study of Croatian history, culture, language, and natural heritage.<\/p>\n

Franjo Ra\u010dki, the first president of the Academy, was an excellent organizer of scientific work. He initiated and edited a number of the Academy’s editions and publications. The first issue of the scholarly periodical Rad (Monographs) was published already in 1867. All of the Academy’s departments contributed to this periodical until its sixtieth issue in 1882. After that, several departments began to publish their own series of Rad. With 496 volumes published up to the present day, it is the largest series among the Academy’s publications.<\/p>\n

\"Sve\u010dana<\/p>\n

Reception rooms in the palace of the Croatian Academy<\/p>\n

The first volume of\u00a0Ljetopis<\/em>\u00a0(Annals) was published in 1887, and it soon became one of the regular annual publications of the Academy, as well as its administrative messenger. One hundred and nine volumes of\u00a0Ljetopis<\/em>\u00a0have been published so far. Since the study of Croatian history remained for a long time the main task of the Academy, the number of publications in this field increased considerably. As early as 1868, the Academy came out with the first volume of the\u00a0Monumenta spectantia historiam Slavorum meridionalium<\/em>, a series which publishes larger excerpts from archival documents (53 volumes have appeared to date).\u00a0Starine<\/em>\u00a0(Antiquities), a series consisting mainly of fragmentary archival materials dealing with Croatian political and literary history, was first published in 1869. These main editions were divided into series, such as\u00a0Monumenta Ragusina<\/em>,\u00a0Spomenici Hrvatske krajine<\/em>\u00a0(Documents of the Croatian Frontier-Zone), and\u00a0Scriptores<\/em>, selected works of early Croatian historians. Statutes of Dalmatian towns, feudal laws and early acts written in Croatian have been published in the series\u00a0Monumenta historico-iuridica<\/em>\u00a0(13 volumes).\u00a0Zbornik za narodni \u017eivot i obi\u010daje Ju\u017enih Slavena<\/em>\u00a0(Collection on the Folk Life and Customs of the Southern Slavs) was first published in 1896, and 54 volumes have been published so far.
\nAmong the most important of the Academy’s numerous publications are:\u00a0Gra\u0111a za povijest knji\u017eevnosti hrvatske<\/em>\u00a0(Documents for the History of the Croatian literature, 35 volumes);\u00a0Diplomati\u010dki zbornik Kraljevine Hrvatske, Dalmacije i Slavonije<\/em>\u00a0(The Diplomatic Codex of the Kingdom of Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia, 19 volumes);\u00a0Noviji pisci hrvatski<\/em>\u00a0(Modern Croatian Writers, 12 volumes);\u00a0Hrvatski latinisti<\/em>\u00a0(Croatian Latinists, 11 volumes);\u00a0Gra\u0111a za gospodarsku povijest Hrvatske<\/em>\u00a0(Documents for the Economic History of Croatia, 21 volumes);\u00a0Djela<\/em>\u00a0(Works, 80 volumes), series in which monographs on Croatia’s country, history and language are published;\u00a0Prirodoslovna istra\u017eivanja<\/em>\u00a0(Natural History Studies, 107 volumes);\u00a0Pomorsko pravo<\/em>\u00a0(Maritime Law, 10 volumes);\u00a0Gra\u0111a za pomorsku povijest Dubrovnika<\/em>\u00a0(Documents for the Naval History of Dubrovnik, 6 volumes);\u00a0Problemi sjevernog Jadrana<\/em> (The Northern Adriatic Issues, 8 volumes), etc.<\/p>\n

The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts has organized over one hundred scientific meetings and conferences, evaluating works of important Croats throughout history. In addition, it has organized a number of symposia focusing on the history and economic development of Croatian regions, cities and towns, as well as on the problems of Croatia’s development. The Academy has published the following dictionaries: Ma\u017eurani\u0107’s\u00a0Prinosi za hrvatski pravno-povijesni rje\u010dnik<\/em>\u00a0(Contributions for a Croatian Historical Dictionary, 11 volumes), Bene\u0161i\u0107’s\u00a0Rje\u010dnik hrvatskog knji\u017eevnog jezika od preporoda do l. G. Kova\u010di\u0107a<\/em>\u00a0(Dictionary of the Croatian Literary Language from the National Revival to I. G. Kova\u010di\u0107, in 12 volumes), and Rje\u010dnik hrvatskoga kajkavskog knji\u017eevnog jezika<\/em>\u00a0(Dictionary of Croatian Literary Kajkavian, 10 volumes). The work on the large\u00a0Rje\u010dnik hrvatskog ili srpskog jezika<\/em> (Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language, 97 volumes) went on for almost one hundred years.<\/p>\n

Bishop Strossmayer initiated the construction of the Academy Palace on Zrinjevac, where he wanted to situate his gallery of paintings as well. The construction of the neo-Renaissance palace in Florentine style, as had been Strossmayer’s wish, began in August 1877, and it was completed in the summer of 1880. A quarter of the sum necessary to build the palace was donated by Strossmayer. Four years later, the Academy received the greatest of its patron’s donations: a collection of 256 works of art, mostly paintings (235) belonging to various Italian schools.\u00a0The Strossmayer Gallery of Old Masters\u00a0was opened in the Palace of the Academy on 9 November 1884 in the presence of Strossmayer himself.<\/p>\n

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Ba\u0161ka tablet, one of the oldest stone inscriptions in the Croatian language written in the Glagolitic alphabet,
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