Matko Mandic

Mate (Matko) Mandić (by Th. Mayerhofer, 1889)

Matko Mandić [ ˈmatkɔ ˈmanditɕ ] (born September 22, 1849 in Mihotići , Kastav municipality , Istria ; † May 13, 1915 in Trieste ) was a politician , clergyman and publicist who was involved in the Croatian and Slovenian national movement in Istria and Trieste.

Life

Matko Mandić was born in Mihotići in the municipality of Kastav in what was then the Austrian crown land of Istria . He attended the elementary school in Kastav, at that time the only regular school in Istria with the language of instruction in Croatian , and the grammar school first in Senj and then in Rijeka and graduated from high school in 1869. He studied theology in Gorizia and Trieste and was ordained a priest in 1874 . After his ordination , he also studied natural sciences in Prague and graduated there in 1879.

He was active in public life since the beginning of the 1880s. Together with Vjekoslav Spinčić and Matko Laginja , who came from Istria like him, he supported the political line of the Stranka prava (party of the right) . Spinčić, Laginja and Mandić are now part of the second generation of the “national rebirth” in Istria.

In the autumn of 1882 Mandić initially took up a position as a high school teacher in Zagreb , but in January 1883 he moved to Trieste at the invitation of the leaders of the national movement in Istria and took over the editing of the magazine Naša sloga , for which he had been a correspondent since 1871 was. He remained editor of the Naša sloga from 1883 to 1899 and published numerous articles, reports and reviews there during this time. When the Naša sloga magazine moved from Trieste to Pula in 1899 , he was unable to move there himself, but remained one of its employees until his death.

In Trieste, Matko Mandić worked at the Hrvatski dom (“Croatian House”) in 1877 and also participated in Slovenian political organizations. From 1884 he was deputy chairman and from 1887 until his death chairman of the Delavsko podporno društvo ("Workers Aid Association"). From April 1891 to January 1905 he was chairman of the political association Edinost ( unity ). In 1907 he helped found the South Slavic Narodna delavska organizacija  / Narodna radnička organizacija ( National Workers' Organization ), which was supported by the Edinost Association. From 1908 to 1912 he was chairman of the Politično društvo za Hrvate in Slovence v Istri  / Političko društvo za Hrvate i Slovence u Istri ("Political Association for Croats and Slovenes in Istria"). In addition, he was chairman of the school association Družba sv. Ćirila i Metoda (“St. Cyril and Methodius Society”) for Istria.

From 1889 to 1915 Matko Mandić was a member of the Istrian parliament. His first election to the state parliament was annulled by the Italian majority in 1889, but his re-election in August 1890 was confirmed. In the Istrian parliament he campaigned for the Croatian and Slovenian school system and for the establishment of a Croatian grammar school in Istria, for the use of Croatian and Slovenian as the official language and for the economic interests of his constituency.

In 1907 Mandić founded the daily Balkan newspaper in Trieste , the first and only Croatian daily newspaper ever published there, of which he was the owner, publisher and editor and which appeared in Trieste from September 1, 1907 to April 30, 1908 in a total of 199 issues.

In 1907 Mandić was elected a member of the Austrian Imperial Council in the fourth Istrian constituency, the Koper and Podgrad districts. As a member of the Reichsrat he belonged in 1907 to the Zveza južnih Slovanov ( South Slavic Association ) and in 1911, together with the other South Slavic MPs from Trieste and Istria, to the Narodni klub ("National Club"). In 1909 he was elected to the economic committee of the Reichsrat. In the Imperial Council, Mandić advocated equal rights for Croats and Slovenes with Italians in Istria. In numerous interpellations he advocated the use of Slovenian and Croatian as the official language and for the economic interests of Istria. In 1907 he demanded the publication of the state laws for the coastal area in a Croatian version, in 1908 he proposed the construction of a railway line between Divača and Štanjel , and in 1909 he demanded Croatian signs on the railway stations.

literature

• Viktor Car Emin : Matko Mandić. Osvrt na njegov život i rad. Samobor 1938.
• Enciklopedija Slovenije. Vol. 6: Krek - Marij. Mladinska Knjiga, Ljubljana 1992. p. 388. sv Matko Mandić .
• Hrvatska enciklopedija. Vol. 7: Mal - Nj. Leksikografski Zavod Miroslav Krleža, Zagreb 2005, p. 31. sv Matko Mandić .
• Avgust Pirjevec: Mandić Matko . In: Slovenski biografski leksikon . Ed. Franc Ksaver Lukman et al. Vol. 5: Maas - Mrkun. Ljubljana 1933, p. 42.
• JA Soldo:  Mandić Matko. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 46.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} Enciklopedija Slovenije. Vol. 6: Krek - Marij. Mladinska Knjiga, Ljubljana 1992, p. 388, sv Matko Mandić .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r} Slovenski biografski leksikon . Ed. Franc Ksaver Lukman et al. Vol. 5: Maas - Mrkun. Ljubljana 1933, p. 42, sv Matko Mandić .
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Narodni zastupnik Matko Mandić (Nekrolog). In: Naša sloga , Volume 46, No. 20 (special edition), May 15, 1915, p. 1.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Hrvatska enciklopedija. Vol. 7: Mal - Nj. Leksikografski Zavod Miroslav Krleža, Zagreb 2005, p. 31, sv Matko Mandić .
5. ^ Enciklopedija Slovenije. Vol. 7: Marin - Nor. Mladinska Knjiga, Ljubljana 1993, p. 298, sv Narodna delavska organizacija .
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Šimun Jurišić: Hrvati u Trstu. In: Hrvatska revija , Broj 1, Godište IV., 2004.