Ferdo Šišić

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Ferdo plemeniti Šišić ( Germanized Ferdinand von Šišić ; born March 9, 1869 in Vinkovci , Austria-Hungary , today Croatia ; † January 1, 1940 in Zagreb , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) was a Yugoslav historian who is considered the founder of modern Croatian history. In particular, he made important research contributions on topics of the early Middle Ages in Croatia and Bosnia , but also on other epochs of South Slavic history.

Live and act

Šišić studied from 1888 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zagreb , where he obtained his first degree in the summer of 1892 with the teaching examination. His academic teachers included the literary historian Armin Pavić (1844–1914), other important scholars at that time in Croatia, such as Franjo Marković, Natko Nodilo, Đuro Pilar, and Petar Matković.

Šišić continued his studies at the University of Vienna , where he studied with Rikard Heinke, Vatroslav Jagić , Jakob Minor and Joseph Seemüller , who shaped his methodology. In Vienna, Ferdo Šišić systematically examined the university's existing registers from 1453 to 1630 in order to analyze the proportion of students from the Balkans.

Back in Zagreb, Tadija Smičiklas and Tomislav Maretić were important influences for Šišić. He worked as a teacher until 1902, first in Gospić , later in Zagreb and Osijek . In 1900 he earned his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Zagreb with a historical study of the cities of Zadar and Venice from 1159 to 1247. In 1902 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on Miha Madijev de Barbezanis (1280-1338). He then became a private lecturer in the history of Croatia from the 12th to the 14th centuries in Zagreb .

Because of his political views, he was suspended from teaching in 1908. The reason was that Šišić had been a prominent representative of the Croatian-Serbian coalition since that year . The alliance sought to form a common member state of all southern Slavs in the Habsburg monarchy . Šišić was a member of the alliance in the Croatian parliament from 1908 to 1911 and remained active for the Croatian-Serbian coalition until 1917.

His suspension from teaching was lifted as early as 1909, after which he was appointed as a university professor in Zagreb. In 1910, Šišić was accepted as a member of the South Slavic Academy of Sciences and Arts, which is now called the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts . Ferdo Šišić worked as a university professor until the summer semester 1937/38. In 1939 he took early retirement voluntarily and died the following year.

meaning

As a historical researcher, Šišić was primarily interested in developments in the early and high Middle Ages in Croatia. His works about the Croatian past and how they became a nation shaped the country's understanding of history and determined the scientific life of his discipline in Croatia for almost half a century. His bibliography includes more than 450 works. Its extensive history of Croatia, the three volumes of which appeared from 1906 to 1913, became important.

In addition, he built up a library with more than 20,000 titles, which after his death became part of the collection of the Croatian State Archives in Zagreb.

Significant is Šišić's monograph on the Bosnian Grand Duke Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić (1350–1416) and a historical-critical edition of the Dukljanin Chronicle. The scientific work of Ferdo Šišić was valued by experts as objective and systematic. Making extensive use of archive material that he collected from all over Europe, he tried to present his respective subjects largely free of speculation about the unknown. Šišić's last, no longer completed work was from the time of the ruling family of the Árpáden (1001–1301). It could only be released from the estate after his death.

Fonts

Title of Šišić's work on Bosnia and Herzegovina (1908)
  • Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić i njegovo doba (1350–1416) , Zagreb 1902.
  • Bosna pod turskim gospodstvom , “Prilozi hrvatstvu Bosne i Hercegovine. (Zbirka tekstova iz napredkovih kalendara) ”, (Uredio Milenko Brkić), PCC Međugorje, Studenci 1995
  • Nekoliko isprava iz početka XV. stoljeća , Starine JAZU 39, Zagreb 1938, 129-320
  • Izvori bosanske povijesti u , “Povijest Bosne i Hercegovine od najstarijih vremena do godine 1463., Knjiga prva”, 3. izdanje, HKD Napredak, Sarajevo 1998
  • Hrvatska povijest I-III . Zagreb 1906-1913
  • Priručnik izvora hrvatske historije . Zagreb 1914
  • Pregled povijesti hrvatskog naroda . Zagreb 1916.
  • History of the Croats I . Zagreb 1917
  • Pregled povijesti hrvatskog naroda . Zagreb 1922.
  • Povijest Hrvata u vrijeme narodnih Vladara I . Zagreb 1925.
  • Povijest Hrvata u vrijeme narodnih vladara (pretisak izdanja iz 1925), Nakladni zavod MH, Biblioteka Hrvatske povjesnice. Zagreb 1980
  • Povijest Hrvata za kraljeva iz doma Arpadovića . Zagreb 1944
  • Pregled povijesti hrvatskog naroda od najstarijih dana do godine 1873 (edited by Jaroslav Šidak). Zagreb 1962

literature

  • Stjepan Antoljak: Ferdo Šišić - Miho Barada , (U povodu 110-te i 90-te godišnjice rođenja), Nastava povijesti 3, Zagreb 1979, pp. 206-209
  • Stjepan Antoljak: Šišić i Barada - velikani hrvatske historiografije , Vjesnik, October 7, 1979, p. 14.
  • Neven Budak: Ferdo Šišić, Povijest Hrvata u vrijeme narodnih vladara (pretisak izdanja iz 1925) , Nakladni zavod MH, Biblioteka Hrvatske povjesnice. Zagreb 1990, pp. 741-749
  • Miroslav Kurelac: Šišić Ferdo , in: Enciklopedija hrvatske povijesti i kulture , Zagreb 1980, p. 649
  • Trpimir Macan: Pogled u djelo Ferde Šišića , in: Macan Trpimir, Povijesni prijepori , MH, Ogranak Dubronik, Biblioteka Prošlost i sadašnjost, Knjiga 6, Dubrovnik 1992, pp. 278-308
  • Rade Mihaljčić: Šišić Ferdo , in: Enciklopedija srpske istoriografije , Beograd 1997, pp. 725–726
  • Manfred Stoy: Šišić, Ferdo , in: Biographical Lexicon for the History of Southeast Europe . Vol. 4. Munich 1981, p. 132 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data and curriculum vitae according to Neven Budak: "Ferdo Šišić, Povijest Hrvata u vrijeme narodnih vladara (pretisak izdanja iz 1925)", Nakladni zavod MH, Biblioteka Hrvatske povjesnice. Zagreb 1990, pp. 741-749
  2. ^ John VA Fine: When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans. A Study of Identity in Pre-Nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods. University of Michigan Press 2010, p. 212 f. ( ISBN 9780472025602 )
  3. ^ Ferdo Šišić: Hrvatska povijest I-III. Zagreb 1906-1913
personal data
SURNAME Šišić, Ferdo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Šišić, Ferdinand von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Vinkovci
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1940
Place of death Zagreb