Ivan Branislav Zoch

Ivan Branislav Zoch

Ivan Branislav Zoch ( Serbian: Иван Бранислав Зох ; born June 24, 1843 in Jasenová ; † December 27, 1921 in Modra ) was a Slovak physicist and high school teacher .

Life

The son of an Evangelical Lutheran pastor attended schools in Neusohl , Teschen , Ödenburg and Levoča (Abitur in 1862). Equipped with a state scholarship of 600 guilders for Protestant teacher training candidates, he then studied physics at the kk polytechnic institute Vienna and the universities of Heidelberg and Erlangen . On his own initiative, he also attended lectures in chemistry (with Gorup-Besanez ), geology, geography and medicine. In 1866 he defended his dissertation in the field of acoustics. His device for measuring the speed of sound propagation was exhibited at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1867.

As early as June 25, 1866, he became a teacher at the Slovak-speaking Evangelical-Lutheran lower grammar school (4 classes) in Großrauschenbach , founded in 1862 , which was increased to an upper grammar school with 8 classes from 1867. In addition, a teachers' seminar for elementary school teachers was operated at the school from 1868. In addition to physics, mathematics and science, he also taught singing, writing and gymnastics. At the beginning of 1867, following a political conversation, he and the city notary Stefancok were interrogated in a neighboring town and a few days later both were briefly arrested, whereby Zoch was accused (contrary to the facts) that Russian rubles had enabled him to do his doctorate and pursue an academic career. When the school was closed in 1875 (in the course of Magyarization ) by the Hungarian Minister of Education, Ágoston Trefort , Zoch earned his living for some time (until the company went bankrupt) as a workshop manager in the manufacture of barrels.

In dire need, Bishop Strossmayer got him a job as a lecturer at the grammar school in Osijek ( Slavonia ), which changed to the Croatian language of instruction around this time. At first he still taught in German, but in September 1877 (after passing an examination in the Croatian language) he was appointed high school professor.

Annual report of the kk Realgymnasium in Sarajevo at the end of the third school year 1881/82

After the occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary (due to the Berlin Congress ), the government sent him to Sarajevo in 1879 , where he founded the Imperial and Royal High School as the provisional director.

After a few years (approx. 1882) he returned to Osijek for seven years, then became director of the secondary school in Petrinja (Croatia), where he worked until his retirement in 1908. Instead, he had apparently already been appointed by the Croatian provincial government in 1889 as director of the grammar school in Belovar , against which the archbishop's consistory in Agram (apparently successfully) protested.

After his retirement, Zoch moved to his brother in Modra , where he also died and rests in the local cemetery, a few meters from the grave of Ľudovít Štúr .

Appreciation

Zoch's greatest work is the First Croatian Encyclopedia (it appeared in Osijek in 1887 and 1890 two of the six planned volumes with the letters A – G). He had previously written high school textbooks in Slovak for physics (1869), psychology (1871, in manuscript) and a brief introduction to physical education classes (1873), for which he had to create the terminology largely new.

Ivan Zoch also composed some songs, taught music, singing and playing the flute.

Works

see also Ivan Branislav Zoch on Wikisource for articles in German

• Slovár vedeckého slovenského názvoslovia (Dictionary of Slovak scientific terminology; German-Slovak). Only the first part Mathematika (mathematics) appeared in: Letopis matice slovenskej , 8 (1868), pp. 14–24 (A – L) full text in the Google book search, pp. 99–109 (M – Z) full text in the Google book search
• Niečo o výžive človeka a zvierat, s dodatkom o Liebigovej poliovke pre nemluvniatka (About the nutrition of humans and animals, with an addition about Liebig's baby soup ). In: Letopis matice slovenskej , 9 (1869), pp. 31–47 full text in the Google book search
• Physica (physics; Slovak). Skalica 1869
• Počiatky názornej merby pre nižšie gymnázia a semeniská (The beginnings of descriptive geometry for the lower grades of grammar school and kindergarten; Slovak). 1873
• Krátky návod k vyučovaniu v telocviku (A short teaching guide for the gym; Slovak). Veľká Revúca 1873
• Hrvatska enciklopedija. Priručni rječnik sveobčega znanja (Croatian encyclopedia. Concise dictionary of general knowledge; 2 volumes [A – G]; Croatian). Osijek 1887-1890
• Kakovo će biti vrijeme (How will the weather be; Serbo-Croatian). Petrinja 1891
• Načela Pedagogike po Naegelsbachu osobito za srednje škole (Fundamentals of Nägelsbach pedagogy , especially for secondary schools; Serbo-Croatian). Osijek 1896
• Metodika nastave u ljepopisu (methodology of handwriting ; Serbo-Croatian). Sarajevo 1896

literature

• Dr. Ivan Branislav Zoch . In: Dom i sviet 19 (1906), broj 22 (November 15, 1906), p. 438 = p. 18 of this number (Croatian; digitized on Wikimedia Commons )
• Hedviga Kubišová: Polyhistor Ivan Branislav Zoch v slovenskom, chorvátskom a srbskom kultúrnom kontexte (The Polyhistor Ivan Branislav Zoch in the Slovak, Croatian and Serbian cultural context ). In: Зборник Матице Српске за славистику ( Latin : Zbornik Matice Srpske za slavistiku ), Novi Sad, YU ISSN  0352-5007 , 74 (2008), pp. 253-258 (Slovak); Full text (PDF) on the website of the Serbian cultural association Matica srpska
• Denis Njari: Prva hrvatska enciklopedija - osječki doprinos hrvatskoj enciklopedistici (The first Croatian encyclopedia - Osijek's contribution to Croatian encyclopedia). In: Hrvatistika , 3 (2009), pp. 99-106 (Croatian; full text (PDF) on Hrcak Portal of scientific journals of Croatia )

Web links

Wikisource: Ivan Branislav Zoch  - Sources and full texts

Commons : Ivan Branislav Zoch  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Zoch, Ivan Branislav . On: Central European Science Adventure - Lexicon (CESA project, funded by the European Commission )
• Ivan Branislav Zoch . To: Štefánikova nadácia na podporu astronómie na Slovensku ( Štefánik Foundation for the Promotion of Astronomy in Slovakia ; Slovak)
• Ivan Branislav Zoch . On: osobnosti.sk (Slovak)
• Nadan Filipovic: Prvih 50 godina Prve gimnazije u Sarajevu (The first 50 years of the First Gymnasium in Sarajevo), in 5 parts: Part 1 , Part 2 Školski programi i prvi profesori (The school programs and first professors), Part 3 Prvi director - dr Ivan Branislav Zoh (The first director - Dr. Ivan Branislav Zoh [!]); Part 4 Direktori (The directors 1882-1829); Part 5 Abecedna lista svih profesora do 1929. godine (Alphabetical list of all professors up to 1929); Part 6 (covers some students) (Bosnian-Serbian). On: dovla.net Vlado Kaluža, Williamston, Michigan
• O prvoj (about the beginning). In: Prva gimnazija Sarajevo (First Gymnasium Sarajevo; Bosnian)
• Literature by and about Ivan Branislav Zoch in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arrests . In: News (Brno) February 14, 1867, p. 3
2. ↑ Vladimír Michalička, Martina Kočí: The First Slovak grammar school in Revuca and its influence on slovak national identity ( Memento of the original of July 8, 2009 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. (PDF of the presentation) and Grammar School in Revuca ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2009 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. (PDF of the abstract). On: Abstracts and manuscripts ( The 12th International Symposium for Museums of School Life and School History Collections , Bergen June 27-30, 2007 ; English)  
3. ↑ Arrests . In: News (Brno) February 14, 1867, p. 3
4. ↑ cf. Ágoston Trefort in the English Wikipedia
5. ↑ Odredbe pogledom na srednja učilišta (Provisions regarding secondary schools). In: Primorac , 5 (1877), broj 144 (23rd rujna (September) 1877)
6. ^ Srećko Matko Džaja : Bosnia-Herzegovina in the Austro-Hungarian era 1878–1918 . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3486560794 (= Southeast European Works 93), p. 118 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
7. ↑ see: Evangelical Church Newspaper for Austria. Volume 6, 1889, p. 158 in Google Book Search USA . Archbishop of Agram 1871-1890 Josip Mihalović .
8. ^ Justus von Liebig: A new soup for children . In: Annals of Chemistry and Pharmacy . Volume 133 (1865), Issue 3, pp. 374-383 full text in the Google book search; Addendum to my infant soup . ibid. Volume 138 (1866), Issue 1, pp. 97-108 full text in the Google book search
9. ↑ Joint project of technical museums from Slovenia ( sl: Tehniški muzej Slovenije ; see also the homepage www.tms.si ), Austria ( Technisches Museum Wien ), Czech Republic ( Technisches Museum in Brünn ), Hungary ( Hungarian Museum of Science, Technology and Transport , Budapest), Slovakia ( en: Slovak Technical Museum , Košice) and Poland ( en: Muzeum Inżynierii Miejskiej w Krakowie ). In addition to a children's game, the “Lexicon” also contains around 50 biographies of important people per country.