Franjo Bučar

This article is about the Croatian writer and sports official Franjo Bučar. For the Slovenian opera singer of the same name, see Franz Bucar (singer) .

Franjo Bučar

Franjo Bučar (born November 25, 1866 in Zagreb , † December 26, 1946 ) was a Croatian writer and sports official. He is considered the father of Olympic sports in Croatia .

Life

Franjo Bučar was born to a Slovenian father and a Croatian mother in Zagreb and was educated in Zagreb, Vienna and Stockholm . He graduated from high school in Zagreb in 1886 and graduated from the Institute of History and Geography in Zagreb before obtaining his doctorate in history in Graz in 1897 . As an author, he wrote about Protestant literature in Croatia and Scandinavian literature, among other things, and wrote manuals for many sports. Bučar was part of the Olympic movement in Croatia and has been campaigning for Croatia's Olympic independence in sport since 1896. He helped popularize many sports as well as the introduction of other sports in Croatia , including soccer , tennis , athletics , figure skating , alpine skiing , ice hockey and fencing . Furthermore, he was involved in the founding of numerous sports clubs and associations. He has received national and international awards. In 1914, Bučar was elected the first president of the Croatian Sports Federation, which he founded in 1909.

Bučar founded the Yugoslav Olympic Committee in 1919 and was its first president until 1927. He was also a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 1920 until his death in 1946 .

reception

In 1991 the Franjo Bučar State Prize for Sport named after him (Croatian Državna nagrada za šport "Franjo Bučar" ), the highest state award for exceptional achievements in Croatian sport, was introduced.

In Zagreb , a private sports and language high school was named after Bučar.

Works (selection)

• with Viktor Rudolf: Gimnastika i igre u pučkoj školi ( gymnastics and games in primary school ), Zagreb 1909
• Povijest hrvatske protestanske književnosti za reformacije ( History of the Croatian Protestant Literature of the Reformation ), Zagreb 1910
• Vježbe u tlu ( exercises on the ground ), Zagreb 1917
• Igre za društva i škole ( Games for Society and School ), Zagreb 1925
• Povijest Hrvatskog Sokola - Matice u Zagrebu: 1874-1885 ( The history of the Croatian Sokol nuts in Zagreb: 1874-1885 ), Zagreb 1925
• Bibliografija hrvatske protestantske književnosti za reformacije ( Bibliography of the Croatian Protestant Literature of the Reformation ), by Franjo Bučar and Francis Fancev, Zagreb 1938
• Uzajamni književni rad Hrvata i Bugara ( Mutual literary work between Croatians and Bulgarians ). Hrvatska revija, No. 10, 1942
• O hrvatskoj protestantskoj tiskari u Njemačkoj u XVI. stoljeću ( About Croatian Protestant Printers in Germany in the 16th Century ), Zagreb 1943

Web links

• Franjo Bučar on franjobucar.net
• Bučar, Franjo on enciklopedija.hr
• Bučar, Franjo on hbl.lzmk.hr
• The Croatian Olympic family , on issuu.com, monograph by the Croatian Olympic Committee on the occasion of its 20th anniversary in 2011, from p. 56

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tko je bio Franjo Bučar? ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on the website of the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sport (Croatian). Retrieved March 25, 2017.  
2. ↑ Croatia: Sport , on croatia.eu. Retrieved May 31, 2017.
3. ^ Medvescak Zagreb , on passionhockey.com (French). Retrieved May 31, 2017.
4. ↑ državna nagrada za sport "Franjo Bučar" ( Memento of the original February 28, 2018 Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested Please review the original and archive link under. Instructions and then remove this notice. , On sdus.hr (Croatian). Retrieved May 29, 2017. 
5. ↑ Presentation of the State Award for Sports “Franjo Bučar” , on the website of the Croatian Olympic Committee , from January 16, 2017 (English). Retrieved May 31, 2017.
6. ↑ Privatna sportska i jezična gimnazija FRANJO Bucar . Retrieved May 31, 2017.

predecessor	Office	successor
?	President of the Croatian Sports Federation 1914-19?	?
Nikodije Stevanović	President of the Yugoslav Olympic Committee 1919–1927	Dušan Stefanović