Strossmayerovo južnoslavenstvo i sintagma hrvatski ili srpski Franje Račkoga.

Auburger, Leopold

Between the South Slavic component of Josip Juraj Strossmayer's national Croatian cultural politics and Franjo Rački's idea of "jugoslovjenstvo" exist some noticeable differences. However, the South Slavic cultural ideas of both clearly contrasts with the program of serbocroatism of the partisans of Vuk S. Karadžić and its later developments. The Croatian bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer (1815-1905) was one of the most eminent leaders of Croatian cultural politics in the second half of the 19th century. He was bishop of the dioceses of Bosnia and Srijem with his residence in đakovo (1850-1905). Constantly being confronted with the grave political, cultural and church-related needs of all the South Slavs under Osmanian rule and within the Habsburg Monarchy, besides the problems of national Croatian cultural politics, which were central to Strossmayer, he also fully took account of the respective problems of the other South Slavs. So, in his cultural politics he aimed at cultural interrelations between the South Slavs which could result in some sort of cultural community on the basis of certain South Slavic and general Slavic cultural commonalities. In this endeavour he gave the highest priority to the overcoming of the schism between the Slavic Orthodox Churches and the Catholic Church. He regarded the reunion of the churches a necessary condition for the development of wellgrounded cultural togetherness between the Slavs. In this he was lead by his ecumenical principle of "unity in diversity" between the churches, which corresponded to his federalistic standpoint in questions of the constitutional reform of the Habsburg Monarchy. With respect to the actual historical cultural situation of the different South Slavic peoples and the ways for their higher development, he saw the Croatian people and culture as the leading partner and mediator between the Christian culture of Western respectively Central Europe and the Christian South Slavic cultural world of Southeastern Europe. In fullling this historical task the cultural and scientic center was to be Zagreb with its newly founded "South Slavic Academy of Sciences and Arts" and its new University of Zagreb. In contrast to bishop J. J. Strossmayer himself, his primary consultor and condant Franjo Rački (1828-1894) did not think the overcoming of the schism an absolutely necessary condition for the development of stable and community promoting South Slavic, especially Croatian-Serbian cultural interrelations.…

BOSNIA & Herzegovina; ZAGREB (Croatia); CROATIA; SCHISM; STANDARD language; PHILOLOGY; STROSSMAYER, Josip Juraj, 1815-1905; UNIVERSITY of Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia)

Rijec (Word), 2009, Vol 15, Issue 3, p16

1330-917X

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