Jure Turić

Jure Turić (born April 3, 1861 in Gospić , Austria-Hungary, today Croatia , † February 9, 1944 in Zagreb ) was a Croatian educator and writer .

Life

Turić attended school in his hometown in Lika , between the Velebit and Lika Mountains, and became a teacher. From 1878 to 1888 he taught in the Lika. He then studied in Jena in Germany until 1892. Turić worked as a teacher trainer in Sarajevo , Petrinja and Zagreb, where he taught from 1919 to 1926 at the University of Education. He was considered an important pedagogue, who dealt in numerous pedagogical treatises above all with adult education and campaigned for better education for the rural population. Today a school in Gospić is named after him. Today, his great-grandson Georg Turic is intensively concerned with the intellectual legacy of his great-grandfather and particularly endeavors to obtain a German translation of his works.

Works

As a man of letters, Turić wrote around forty short stories and novellas that realistically portray the life of the common people in his homeland. Most of them appeared in various magazines, such as Vijenac . There is almost nothing of it in the German translation.

• Darovi svijeta , story 1889
• The decision in the volitional process, discussed from the point of view of Herbart's metaphysics and psychology . Jena 1892. - Dissertation German.
• Igra životom , 1909
• Tko je kriv? (German who is to blame, 1940)
• Pod kabanicom
• Priče , 1909
• Djela, Zagreb 1953

literature

• Ivo Frangeš: History of Croatian Literature. From the beginning to the present . Cologne / Weimar / Vienna: Böhlau, 1995 (therein further references)