From Proto-Modernisation to Modernisation of Croatia’s School System (18th-19th century) From Proto-Modernisation to Modernisation of Croatia’s School

From Proto-Modernisation to Modernisation of Croatia’s School System

(18th-19th century)

From Proto-Modernisationto Modernisation of Croatia’s School System

Project Description

• Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb• Financed by the Croatian Science Foundation• Installation Research Project• 3-years duration (September 2014 – October

31st 2017)


Team Members• Dr. Ivana Horbec, Croatian Institute of History (Principal Investigator)• Dr. sc. Maja Matasović, Croatian Institute of History • Dr. sc. Robert Skenderović, Croatian Institute of History – Department for the

History of Slavonia, Srijem and Baranja• Dr. sc. Vlasta Švoger, Croatian Institute of History• Dr. sc. Milan Vrbanus, Croatian Institute of History – Department for the History of

Slavonia, Srijem and Baranja• Dr. sc. Dinko Župan, Croatian Institute of History – Department for the History of

Slavonia, Srijem and Baranja• Dr. sc. Arijana Kolak Bošnjak, Croatian Institute of History• Dr. sc. Branko Ostajmer, Croatian Institute of History• Mislav Gregl, prof., Croatian Institute of History


The Scope of the Research• Chronological: 18th and „long” 19th century– proto-modernisation and modernisation processes

and the school reforms implemented during this period were of key importance for forming the school system as an educational system that became an important factor in the emergence of modern civil societies, and thus crucial for understanding society as a whole.

• Geographical:In spite of the fact that in the 19th century, Dalmatia and the Republic of Ragusa

(Dubrovnik) became integral part of the Habsburg Monarchy / Austrian Empire, the research will, for the most part, be limited to the area of the Kingdoms of Croatia and Slavonia, in other words to those Croatian Lands that was part of the community of the Lands of the Crown of St. Stephen. This limitation arises from a realistic potential of research in the project period of three years. However, part of the research will still refer to Dalmatia and the Republic of Ragusa, namely that pertaining to the establishment of the database of students pursuing studies at institutions of higher learning in the Monarchy and that pertaining to the analysis of the legislative framework of the Habsburg state school system.


Objectives• to determine, using modern methodological approaches

and critically analysing archival material, factors that were of crucial importance in the process of creation and functioning of Croatia’s school system and for the influence this system exerted, to evaluate correlation of Croatia’s school system with the school system in the Habsburg Monarchy and its reflection on the network of power in the society in the period of (proto)modernisation.

• Furthermore, the project should lay down guidelines for future research that could, in the long run, result in a, methodologically speaking, innovative comprehensive synthetic survey of Croatia’s school system in the 18th and 19th century, based on an interdisciplinary approach.


Expected Results• Scientific Publication of the selected sources for school history• Internet database on Croatian students studying at higher schools in the

Habsburg Monarchy• Internet database of teachers and professors in the Kingdoms of Croatia

and Slavonia in the 18th and 19th centuries• A workshop for doctoral students: History of the school system in Croatia

in 18th and 19th century: sources and methology• A scientific conference and an exhibition on the topic Being a Pupil –

School System of the 18th and 19thCentury from a Pupil’s Perspective • Research on school history: scientific papers and conferences• Popularisation of school history


Sources on School History

• Vol. I.: Laws and Conceptual Proposals for School Reforms (2016) (Ed. I. Horbec, M. Matasović i V. Švoger)

• Vol. II.: Network of Educational Institutions in the Kingdoms of Croatia and Slavonia in the 18th and 19th Centuries (2017) (Ed. M. Gregl i A. Kolak Bošnjak)

• Vol. III. School memorials (2017) (Ed. D. Župan i B. Ostajmer)


Students in the Habsburg Monarchy• The database will comprise names, surnames and time of studies for all

students originating from Croatian Lands who studied at institutions of higher learning in the Habsburg Monarchy. The objective of the database is not only to provide additional information on individuals who finished their studies abroad, but primarily to obtain data that would make possible to analyse as to what extent the established higher education system in the Monarchy had influence on the area of Croatian Lands, to do regional analyses, and to analyse the studies abroad as a medium of intellectual transfer and a means for making a successful career and fast climbing up the social ladder

• Data preparation and their entry in the database will take place in three stages:

1. Universities in present-day Austria, Hungary and Slovakia;2. Other institutions of higher learning and colleges in the area of Austria,

Hungary and Slovakia;3. All institutions of higher learning in Czechia, Poland and Italy.


Thank you!

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From Proto-Modernisation to Modernisation of Croatia’s School System (18th-19th century) From Proto-Modernisation to Modernisation of Croatia’s School