ОДДЗЕЛЄНЄ ЗА ИСТОРИЮ ФИЛОЗОФСКОГО ФАКУЛТЕТА У НОВИМ САДЗЕ И РУСИНИСТИКА
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF THE FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY IN NOVI SAD AND RUTHENIAN STUDIES

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the contribution of the History Department of the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad to the development of Ruthenistics, that is, the connections between these two scientific fields. The Department of History is one of the six founder groups of the Faculty of Philosophy (1954). Ruthenian studies as a university course was introduced in 1972, so that the group for Ruthenian language and literature was founded in the academic year 1981/2. The Department of History, as well as the Faculty of Philosophy itself, have "taken care" of the multi-ethnic and multicultural population structure of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina from a scientific and pedagogical point of view. Therefore, among other things, the Department of History also traditionally teaches about the history of the Ruthenians who immigrated as a community to Bačka in the middle of the 18th century. History students themselves write seminar and graduate (master's) theses on this topic. Among them, the name and work of Janko Ramač, a professor at the Department of Ruthenian Studies who taught History of the Ruthenians and Folklore of the Ruthenians, stands out. Scientists from the Department of History and the Institute for the Study of the History of Vojvodina, led by Academic Slavko Gavrilović, have after several years of research, published five studies in 1977 dedicated to the History of the Ruthenians of Vojvodina until 1941. It was the forerunner of the first historiographical monograph of this community, at that time the History of Ruthenians, by Fedor Laboš, was in the form of a manuscript. Also, over fifty monographs published by associates of the Department of History and the Institute for the Study of the History of Vojvodina hold valuable information from the past of the Ruthenians in Vojvodina. Other periodical publications of these institutions are also worthy of scientific analysis.

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