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Vjekoslav
Vjekoslav or Vekoslav is a male Slavic given name, meaning "''glorious through the ages''" . People * Vjekoslav Banovic - Croatian Australian football player * Vjekoslav Bastl - Croatian architect *Vjekoslav Bevanda - Former prime minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina * Vjekoslav Lujo Čukela - Croatian American Marine * Vjekoslav Ćurić - Croatian priest and humanitarian * Vekoslav Grmič - Slovenian Roman Catholic bishop and theologian *Vjekoslav Heinzel - Mayor of Zagreb *Vjekoslav Karas - Croatian painter *Vjekoslav Klaić - Croatian historian and writer *Vjekoslav Luburić - Croatian Ustasha World War 2 concentration camp commandant * Vjekoslav Pasković - Montenegrin water polo player *Vjekoslav Perica - Croatian historian, journalist and writer *Vjekoslav Servatzy - Croatian politician and Ustaša general *Vjekoslav Spinčić - Croatian politician * Vjekoslav Škrinjar - Croatian footballer * Vjekoslav Šutej - Croatian orchestral conductor * Vjekoslav Tomić - Croatian fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vjekoslav Luburić
Vjekoslav Luburić (6 March 1914 – 20 April 1969) was a Croatian Ustaše official who headed the system of concentration camps in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during much of World War II. Luburić also personally oversaw and spearheaded the contemporaneous genocides of Serbs, Jews and Roma in the NDH. Luburić joined Ante Pavelić's Ustaše movement in 1931, left Yugoslavia the following year and relocated to Hungary. Following the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia and the establishment of the NDH with Pavelić at its head, Luburić returned to the Balkans. In late June 1941, Luburić was dispatched to the Lika region, where he oversaw a series of massacres of Serbs, which served as the '' casus belli'' for the Srb uprising. Around this time, he was appointed head of Bureau III, a department of the Ustaše Surveillance Service tasked with overseeing the NDH's sprawling network of concentration camps. The largest of these was Jasenovac, where approximately 100,000 p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vjekoslav Karas
Vjekoslav Karas (19 May 1821 - 5 July 1858) was a Croatian painter, considered a pioneer of a new era of Croatian painting and art in general. Life Born in Karlovac, Croatia, Karas was sent to be educated in Italy in 1838. While in Rome, he drew inspiration from biblical and religious themes, painting ''Mother with Moses on the river bank''. While in Italy he developed a love for music and learned to play the flute and the guitar while composing songs in both Italian and Croatian. He began focusing his craft on portraits, painting ''Roman woman playing a lute'' and ''Roman commoner'' before returning to Karlovac in 1848. Upon his return, he continued painting portraits and began painting local country life and local folk. He moved to Zagreb and began teaching. From 1851-18522 he traveled to Bosnia where he painted a portrait of Ottoman field marshal and governor Omer-paša Latas and his daughter. Karas suffered periodically from depression and had even attempted suicide. He bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vjekoslav Heinzel
Vjekoslav Heinzel (; 21 August 1871 – 1 March 1934) was the Mayor of Zagreb from 1920 to 1928. He is best remembered for great development projects of the 1920s that significantly expanded the city. Heinzel was born as Alois Heinzel into an entrepreneurial family in Zagreb, and was sent to Graz and Stuttgart to become an architect, graduating in 1893. Licensed for standalone work as an architect in 1896, he designed numerous buildings in Zagreb. In 1906, Alois changed his name to Vjekoslav. In 1910, he became a city councillor and in 1912, he became the head of the local Chamber of Trade and Crafts. The same year he ceased his professional activities and traveled across Europe, before he returned and organized the food supply of Zagreb during World War I. Heinzel was also an early automobilist, who along with Ferdinand Budicki drove the first car in Zagreb, and was one of the founders of the Croatian automobile club in 1906. He participated in many early car races, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vjekoslav Bevanda
Vjekoslav Bevanda (; born 13 May 1956) is a Bosnian Croat politician who is the current Minister of Finance and Treasury. He is also the current Vice-chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, serving alongside Bisera Turković. Bevanda was the 8th Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2012 to 2015 as well. He also served as the Acting Prime Minister of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2009. Bevanda is a member of the Croatian Democratic Union. Early life and education Born in Mostar, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia, on 13 May 1956, Bevanda attended primary and high school in his hometown. He graduated from the Faculty of Economy at the University of Mostar in 1979. Early career Between 1979 and 1989, Bevanda worked for the aircraft builder "SOKO" in Mostar. From 1990 to 1993, he worked for the "APRO" bank, also in Mostar. From 2000 until 2001, he worked for the "Euro Center" in Split, and from 2001 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vjekoslav Šutej
Vjekoslav Šutej (31 July 1951 – 2 December 2009) was a prominent Croatian orchestral conductor. Overview Šutej studied conducting under Igor Gjadrov at the Zagreb Music Academy, before obtaining his Master of Music degree in Rome in the class of Franco Ferrara. From 1979 to 1989 he was art director and chief conductor at the Croatian National Theatre in Split. From 1986 to 1990 he was also art director of the Hollybush Festival in New Jersey, which is where he started his international career. From 1990 to 1993 he was music director of La Fenice opera house in Venice, Italy, where he conducted opera productions of ''Eugene Onegin'' and ''Rigoletto''. In Spain, Šutej was a founding member of the Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra and acted as their art director and principal conductor from 1990 to 1996, and in this period he received the Freedom of the City of Seville. From 1992 to 1997 he was music director of the Houston Grand Opera, after making a sudden debut with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vjekoslav Klaić
Vjekoslav Klaić (21 June 1849 – 1 July 1928) was a Croatian historian and writer, most famous for his monumental work ''History of the Croats''. Klaić was born in Garčin near Slavonski Brod as the son of a teacher. He was raised in German spirit and language, since his mother was German. Klaić went to school in Varaždin and Zagreb. Literature and music were more to his liking in the seminary than history; some of his musical works were performed. He studied history and geography in Vienna. After completing his studies, he taught for more than fifty years, first as a high school teacher, and after 1893 as a professor of general history at the University of Zagreb, where he stayed with short breaks until 1922, when he retired. He died in Zagreb. In 1896 he became a regular member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, and was an honourable doctor of the University of Prague and an external member of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Klaić wrote for the weekly ''Hrva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vjekoslav Bastl
Vjekoslav "Alojz" Bastl (1872–1947) was a Croatian architect known for his diverse secessionist architectural style. His work circulated mostly within the boundaries of Zagreb, where he resided. Later in life, he got heavily influenced by modernism. Today, he is regarded as one of the highlights of early modern architecture in Croatia. Biography Bastl was born on 13 August 1872 to an ethnic Czech family originating from a Bohemian town Příbram. He eventually moved to Zagreb where he established a status as an architect working for the Hönigsberg & Deutsch atelier. His motives for emigrating to Croatia remain unknown (Croatian lands and Czech lands were part of one empire at the time). Upon arrival, he enrolled in the Royal crafts school, graduating in 1896. Work Arranged chronologically: * Pečić House - 43 Ilica st. (1899) * Ethnographic Museum, Zagreb (1902) * Rado House - 5 Ban Jelačić square (1904–1905) * Feller House - Ban Jelačić square (1905–1906) * Kal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vjekoslav Perica
Vjekoslav Perica (born 11 July 1955) is a Croatian historian, journalist and writer who specializes in the modern history of religions in the former Yugoslavia. In his youth, Perica was a talented basketball player who was a member of KK Jugoplastika's first team, but ultimately found academic pursuit more important than his sports career. He graduated from the Faculty of Law in Split in 1980. From 1985 to 1990 Perica was employed as the secretary of the government's Committee for Relations with Religious Communities. From 1988 to 1991 he wrote a column in '' Nedjeljna Dalmacija'' called "Religion and Politics", and interviewed virtually all religious leaders in the former Yugoslavia. After being fired from his job in 1990, Perica went to the United States where he obtained a MSc in political science (1994) and history (1995), as well as a PhD in history (1998), all from the University of Minnesota. His PhD thesis, "Religious revival and ethnic mobilization in Yugoslavia, 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vjekoslav Tomić
Vjekoslav Tomić (born 19 July 1983) is a Croatian football goalkeeper who most recently played for Turkish club Şanlıurfaspor. Career On 13 January 2014 Tomić signed for Khazar Lankaran Khazar Lankaran FK ( tly, Xəzər Lankon Futboli Klub, script=Latn, az, Xəzər Lənkəran Futbol Klubu) is an Azerbaijani football club based in Lankaran that last played in the Azerbaijan Premier League during the 2015–16 season. Since the ... in the Azerbaijan Premier League on a one-year contract. Career statistics References External links * * * 1983 births Living people Footballers from Split, Croatia Croatian men's footballers Croatian expatriate men's footballers Men's association football goalkeepers RNK Split players NK Međimurje players HNK Hajduk Split players Kardemir Karabükspor footballers FC Sheriff Tiraspol players Khazar Lankaran FK players FC Koper players Şanlıurfaspor footballers Croatian Football League players Slovenian PrvaLiga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vjekoslav Spinčić
Vjekoslav Spinčić (23 October 1848 – 27 May 1933) was a Croats, Croatian politician from Istria. Born in Spinčići near Kastav, he studied theology in Gorizia and Trieste, and was ordained a priest in 1872. Afterwards, he continued studies in history and geography in Prague and Vienna. He worked as a teacher in Koper, and later in Gorizia. In 1892, after saying Istria belongs to Croatia while in Zagreb, he was fired from his job in Gorizia. Along with Matko Mandić and Matko Laginja, he was one of the most influential Croatian politicians in Istria at the time, a member of the Party of Rights (1861–1929), Party of Rights. He served in the Imperial Council (Austria), Imperial Council multiple times. At the Unveiling of the Gundulić monument in Dubrovnik, Spinčić arrived as the highest ranking Croatian politician from Istria and laid a wreath as its representative. In 1908, he refused to recognize the agreement between the Croatian-Slovenian Peoples' Parties with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vjekoslav Vrančić
Vjekoslav Vrančić (25 March 1904 – 25 September 1990) was a high-ranked Croatian Ustaše official who held different positions in the Independent State of Croatia during World War II in Yugoslavia. After the proclamation, he served as the Under Secretary of the Ustaše Foreign Affairs Ministry. In 1942, he was Pavelić's envoy to the Italian Second Army. In this role he entered into negotiations with Chetnik representatives Jevđeviċ, Grđiċ and Kraljeviċ. Then he served as Under Secretary in the Ustaše Interior Ministry, the "body directly responsible for concentration camps and repressive political apparatus". Vrančić was "decorated by Hitler in honor of his planning skills at the work of mass deportation". Career He was a confidant of Ante Pavelić and a delegate to important political and military events in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Vrančić was an Ustaša who wrote directives denying Muslims as a nation and claiming that Bosnian Muslims were Croats of Islamic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vjekoslav Škrinjar
Vjekoslav Škrinjar (born 2 June 1969) is a Croatian retired football player. Career Škrinjar joined BSK Slavonski Brod from Borac Podvinje at age 12 and moved on to Yugoslav powerhouse Dinamo Zagreb for whom he played over 200 matches and won the domestic league and cup. He was on the pitch for the infamous Dinamo-Red Star Belgrade football riot in May 1990 that possibly ignited the beginning of the end for the Yugoslav First League.Škrinjar o 13. svibnja: Znali smo da se neće odigrati - Sportklub He finished his career in the German second tier playing for |
