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Hrvatska Revija
''Hrvatska revija'' ( or HR) is a Croatian quarterly published by Matica hrvatska (MH) based in Zagreb. History and profile The magazine's original run lasted between 1928 and 1945 when it was published by MH and during which it became a renowned literary and cultural magazine. The magazine was published regularly from 1929 onwards and its editor from 1930 was Blaž Jurišić. In 1932 Miroslav Krleža, August Cesarec and a group of younger left leaning authors left the magazine which exposed them to nationalist and clerical attacks on them. The publication of the magazine came to an abrupt end in 1945 as the magazine was banned by the Yugoslav communist authorities following the end of World War II. In 1951 it was re-established abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Croatian émigrés Vinko Nikolić and Antun Bonifačić. Apart from literary pieces, the magazine started publishing memoir and travel writing as well as nonfiction. In 1966 the magazine moved to Europe and was publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matica Hrvatska
Matica hrvatska () is the oldest independent, non-profit and non-governmental Croatian national institution. It was founded on February 2, 1842 by the Croatian Count Janko Drašković and other prominent members of the Illyrian movement during the Croatian National Revival (1835–1874). Its main goals are to promote Croatian national and cultural identity in the fields of art, science, spiritual creativity, economy and public life as well as to care for social development of Croatia. Today, in the Palace of Matica hrvatska in the centre of Zagreb more than hundred book presentations, scientific symposia, round table discussions, professional and scientific lectures and concerts of classical music are being organized annually. Matica Hrvatska is also one of the largest and most important book and magazine publishers in Croatia. Magazines issued by Matica are '' Vijenac'', '' Hrvatska revija'' and '' Kolo''. Matica Hrvatska also publishes many books in one of its most famous edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antun Bonifačić
Antun Bonifačić (; 8 October 1901 24 April 1986) was a Croatian Ustaša politician, professor, and writer. He served as the head of the Department of Cultural Relations for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Independent State of Croatia, a fascist puppet-state of Nazi Germany. Biography Bonifačić was born in Punat on the island of Krk on 8 October 1901. He went to gymnasium in Pazin and Sušak. In Zagreb, he studied Slavistics and the Romance languages, specializing in Croatian and French, respectively. He received his doctorate with the thesis under the tutelage Gustave Flaubert in 1924. He then left Yugoslavia to study French literature at Sorbonne University for three years. He later returned as a teacher in Sušak, Sombor, Krk, and Zagreb, where he taught French at the University of Zagreb. During World War II, he worked as the head the Department for Cultural Relations at the Foreign Ministry of the Independent State of Croatia and served as the president of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mara Švel-Gamiršek
Mara Švel-Gamiršek, also known as ''Mara Schwell'' (3 January 1900 – 7 December 1975) was a Croatian language, Croatian writer from Syrmia. Beside prose, she also wrote poetry. Early life and education Mara Švel-Gamiršek was born in Sremska Mitrovica, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (today Vojvodina, Serbia), 3 January 1900, in the family of Šokci Croats. She attended the elementary school in Sremska Mitrovica. She continued her education in gymnasium in Sušak, Rijeka, Sušak, and after that, she went to study medicine. She didn't complete her medical degree as she married. Career From 1923, she turned to her literary work. Later, she moved to Zagreb. She began publishing her works in early 1940s, at Matica hrvatska. Already then, her works were drawing attention from readers. Being Šokica herself, she has described the life of Šokci Croats in her books. In wider sense, she belonged to the phenomenon of ''žensko šokačko pismo'' ("f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomislav Sunić
Tomislav Sunić (born February 3, 1953), sometimes known as Tom Sunic, is a Croatian-American translator, far-right activist and a former professor. His views are often cited as part of the European New Right. Biography Sunić was born in Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia (present-day Zagreb, Republic of Croatia) in 1953 to a Croatian Catholic family."Reexamining Assumptions": An Interview with Tom Sunic alphalink.com.au; accessed August 13, 2015. He is a naturalized United States citizen. His father, Mirko Sunić (1915–2008) was a lawyer in communist Yugoslavia, who, along with Tomislav's sister, Mirna Sunić, were "prisoners of conscience". The two were charged with creating "hostile propaganda", under Article 133 of the Yugoslav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dubravka Oraić Tolić
Dubravka Oraić Tolić (born in Slavonski Brod, on 1 August 1943) is a Croatian poet, essayist, translator, and theorist of literature and culture. Biography Dubravka Oraić Tolić went to primary school in the village of Donji Andrijevci near Slavonski Brod, where she had met her future husband . She studied Philosophy and Russian language with literature in Zagreb (1962–1966) and Vienna (1967–1969). She earned her Master’s Degree with a thesis about a landscape in the opus of A. G. Matoš and her Doctorate Degree with a thesis on quotations in literature and culture. From 1971 to 1998 she worked at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences’ Department of Literary Studies. She was a tenured professor of literary theory and culture until she retired in 2014. She taught as a guest professor at the University of München (1992) and Göttingen (2007). She took part in scientific gatherings locally and abroad (Amsterdam, Bad Urach, Berlin, Bremen, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Meštrović
Ivan Meštrović (; 15 August 1883 – 16 January 1962) was a Croatian and Yugoslav sculptor, architect, and writer. He was the most prominent modern Croatian sculptor and a leading artistic personality in contemporary Zagreb. He studied at Pavao Bilinić's Stone Workshop in Split and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he was formed under the influence of the Secession. He traveled throughout Europe and studied the works of ancient and Renaissance masters, especially Michelangelo, and French sculptors Auguste Rodin, Antoine Bourdelle and Aristide Maillol. He was the initiator of the national-romantic group Medulić (he advocated the creation of art of national features inspired by the heroic folk songs). During the First World War, he lived in emigration. After the war, he returned to Croatia and began a long and fruitful period of sculpture and pedagogical work. In 1942 he emigrated to Italy, in 1943 to Switzerland and in 1947 to the United States. He was a professor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalibor Brozović
Dalibor Brozović (; 28 July 1927 – 19 June 2009) was a Croatian linguist, Slavist, dialectologist and politician. He studied the history of standard languages in the Slavic region, especially Croatian. He was an active Esperantist since 1946, and wrote Esperanto poetry as well as translated works into the language. Life and career He was born in Sarajevo and went to primary school in Zenica. Then he went to comprehensive secondary schools in Visoko, Sarajevo and Zagreb. He received a BA degree in the Croatian language and Yugoslav literatures at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. In 1957, he received his Ph.D. with the thesis ''Speech in the Fojnica Valley''. Brozović worked as an assistant at the Zagreb Theater Academy (1952–1953) and as a lecturer at the University of Ljubljana (until 1956). He subsequently went to the Faculty of Philosophy in Zadar, becoming an associate professor (1956), docent (1958), extraordinary (1962) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Babić (soldier)
Ivan Babić may refer to: * Ivan Babić (footballer, born 1981), Serbian football player * Ivan Babić (footballer, born 1984), Croatian footballer * Ivan Babić (officer) Ivan Babić (15 December 1904 – 6 June 1982) was a Croatian soldier and lieutenant-colonel in the Croatian Home Guard and later an emigrant dissident writer against Communist Yugoslavia. He attended gymnasium in Bjelovar. Babić became a mi ... (1904–1982), Croatian soldier and lieutenant-colonel See also * Babić {{hndis, Babic, Ivan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatian Diaspora
The Croatian diaspora ( or ) consists of communities of ethnic Croats and/or Croatian citizens living outside Croatia. Estimates on its size are only approximate because of incomplete statistical records and naturalization, but (highest) estimates suggest that the Croatian diaspora numbers between a third and a half of the total number of Croats. More than four million Croats live out of Croatia. The largest community outside Croatia are the Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the constituent nations of that country, amounting to about 545,000. The Croatian diaspora outside Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina amounts to close to a million elsewhere in Europe, and to about 1.7 million overseas. The largest overseas community is reported from the United States at 1,200,000, Chile at 400,000, and Argentina with 250,000 people. In Western Europe, the largest group is found in Germany. The German census reports 228,000 Croats in Germany , but estimates of the total number of peo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolo (magazine)
''Kolo'' is a Croatian literary magazine published by Matica hrvatska. History and profile The magazine was founded by Stanko Vraz in 1842. Matica hrvatska became its publisher in 1847. In 1851, the publishing of ''Kolo'' temporarily ceased (replaced by ''Neven'', which was in turn replaced by ''Vienac''). The popular serbs of bosnia and herzegovina, Bosnian Serb poem, and later song, ''Emina (poem), Emina'' by Aleksa Šantić was first published in ''Kolo'' in 1902. Editors of ''Kolo'' have included Marijan Matković, Joža Horvat, Slavko Kolar, Gustav Krklec, Vjekoslav Kaleb, Vlatko Pavletić, Milivoj Slaviček, Miroslav Vaupotić, Igor Zidić. References {{Europe-lit-mag-stub Croatian-language magazines Literary magazines published in Croatia Magazines established in 1842 Matica hrvatska ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatian Spring
The Croatian Spring (), or Maspok, was a political conflict that took place from 1967 to 1971 in the Socialist Republic of Croatia, at the time part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. As one of six republics comprising Yugoslavia at the time, Croatia was ruled by the League of Communists of Croatia (SKH), nominally independent from the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ), led by President Josip Broz Tito. The 1960s in Yugoslavia were marked by a series of reforms aimed at improving the economic situation in the country and increasingly politicised efforts by the leadership of the republics to protect the economic interests of their respective republics. As part of this, political conflict occurred in Croatia when reformers within the SKH, generally aligned with the Croatian cultural society , came into conflict with conservatives. In the late 1960s, a variety of grievances were aired through , which were adopted in the early 1970s by a reformist faction of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breakup Of Yugoslavia
After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s, the constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia split apart in the early 1990s. Unresolved issues from the breakup caused a series of inter-ethnic Yugoslav Wars from 1991 to 2001 which primarily Bosnian War, affected Bosnia and Herzegovina, neighbouring parts of Croatian War of Independence, Croatia and, some years later, Kosovo War, Kosovo. Following the Allies of World War II, Allied victory in World War II, Yugoslavia was set up as a federation of six republics, with borders drawn along ethnic and historical lines: Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Socialist Republic of Croatia, Croatia, Socialist Republic of Macedonia, Macedonia, Socialist Republic of Montenegro, Montenegro, Socialist Republic of Serbia, Serbia, and Socialist Republic of Slovenia, Slovenia. In addition, two autonomous provinces were established within Serbia: SAP Vojvodina, Vojvodina an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
