Eugene Kvaternik

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Eugene Kvaternik
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Eugen Kvaternik (born October 31, 1825 in Agram , Austrian Empire , † October 11, 1871 near Rakovica , Austria-Hungary ) was a nationalist Croatian politician.

Kvaternik and Ante Starčević founded the Croatian Party of Law (HSP) in 1861 . Kvaternik rejected any compromise with the Kingdom of Hungary , to which Croatia was subordinate until 1918, and demanded the full state independence of Croatia.

Life

Suppression of the Rakovica Uprising (painting by Oton Iveković : The Death of Eugen Kvaternik )

Eugen Kvaternik studied law in Pest . After the revolution of 1848 he hoped for Croatia's independence from Hungary . Like many Croatian nationalists, he advocated a Croatian government of its own. The emperors from the Habsburg dynasty should only be nominally heads of state of the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia . After the suppression of the revolution and the abolition of the independent Croatian administration, Kvaternik was disappointed. His views became increasingly radical and anti- Habsburg . In 1858 he emigrated to Russia and tried unsuccessfully to win the tsarist government to intervene in favor of the Croats . A little later he undertook a similarly adventurous attempt in France , his second country of exile.

In 1860 he returned to Croatia. He ran for a parliamentary seat and was elected to the Sabor in 1861 . In 1862 he was imprisoned for anti-government activities. With a short break in 1865, Kvaternik stayed in exile again until 1867. After the Austro-Hungarian equalization , he was allowed to return home.

Dissatisfied with the political developments, Kvaternik led a revolt against the government in the Kordun , in which around 200 armed men took part. When the uprising was put down, Kvaternik was killed.

Appreciation

Monument to Kvaternik in Rakovica

Especially during the Independent State of Croatia in World War II and in the first years after independence in 1991, Kvaternik was honored as a national hero in Croatia . In the 1990s his writings were reprinted and the military training area "Eugen Kvaternik" was named after him. Today the uncompromising nationalist is viewed in a more nuanced way.

Fonts (selection)

  • La Croatie et la Confederation Italienne . Paris 1859.
  • The historical-diplomatic relationship between the Kingdom of Croatia and the Hungarian Crown of St. Stephen . Agram 1860 ( Google Books [accessed March 9, 2013]).
  • What is the truth !?: A response to Szalay's pamphlet, entitled: "On the Croatian Question" . Agram 1861 ( Google Books [accessed March 9, 2013]).
  • Govor na saboru trojesdne kraljevine… dne June 18, 1861 obdrzavanoj u pitanju odnosajah krale i kraljevine Hrvatske… Zagreb 1861 (speech given at the Diet of the Triune Kingdom on June 18, 1861 on the relationship between Croatia and Hungary and Austria).
  • Politička razmatranja na razkrižju hrvatskoga naroda [Political Reflections on the Way of the Cross of the Croatian People] . Zagreb 1861.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jozo Tomasevich, War and Revolution in Yugoslavia: 1941-1945 , Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2001, p. 348
  2. ↑ Lars-Erik Cederman, Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolve , Princeton University Press, 1997, p 207
  3. ^ Ljiljana Šarić, Contesting Europe's Eastern Rim: Cultural Identities in Public Discourse , 2010, p. 100
personal data
SURNAME Kvaternik, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Zagreb
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1871
Place of death Rakovica (Karlovac)