Franjo Rački

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Franjo Rački
Franjo Rački

Franjo Rački (born November 25, 1828 , according to other sources on November 25, 1829 in Fužine , † February 13, 1894 in Zagreb ) was a Croatian theologian , historian and politician.

Life

He studied Catholic theology in Senj and Vienna , became professor of church history and canon law at the Senj seminary and, in 1860, canon in Zagreb . After the founding of the South Slav Academy of Sciences and Arts , he became its first president. From 1861 he was a member of the Croatian state parliament several times, and in 1880 co-founder of the Independent National Party . He is considered to be the founder of Croatian historiography and archeography and has published many works on the history of the Croatian state from the 9th to 11th centuries, the struggle for independence of the southern Slavs from the 11th to 15th centuries, the history of Bogomilism , Croatian constitutional law and Russian literature and history as well as several magazines.

In 1869 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .

Works

  • Viek i djelovanje sv. Cirilla i Methoda slavjamkih apošlolov (Age and effectiveness of the Slav apostles Cyril and Method) , Zagreb 1857–59, 2 vol.
  • The Slavic script , Zagreb 1861
  • Fragments from Croatian constitutional law , Vienna 1861
  • the edition of the so-called copied by him in Rome. Assemannic Gospel (with Jagic, Zagreb 1865)
  • Bogomils and Patarenes ( Bogomili i Patareni ), Zagreb 1870
  • Documenta historiae chroaticae periodum antiquam illustrantis , Zagreb 1877

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Franjo Rački  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950, Vol. 8 (Lfg. 39, 1982), p. 364f.
  2. ^ Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon
  3. Wolf Dietrich Behschnitt: Nationalism among Serbs and Croats 1830-1914 , p. 161 [1]
  4. TD Florinskii: Zhizn 'i trudy Fr. Rachkogo , Kiev 1895, cited above. according to Free Online Encyclopedia
  5. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Franjo Rački. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 19, 2015 (Russian).