SLOVENSKI PROFESORI U HRVATSKIM KRALJEVSKIM I CARSKIM GIMNAZIJAMA S POSEBNIM OSVRTOM NA RAZDOBLJE AUSTRO-UGARSKE MONARHIJE
SLOVENIAN PROFESSORS AT CROATIAN ROYAL AND IMPERIAL HIGH SCHOOLS WITH SPECIAL CONSIDERATION OF THE PERIOD OF THE AUSTRIAN-HUNGARIAN MONARCHY

Summary/Abstract: Slovenian-Croatian relations are complex processes realized on different levels and realized to a large extent by people who connect both cultures. The paper therefore deals with Slovenes who spent part of their lives in Croatian territories, studied at Croatian educational institutions or worked as teachers in the school system when both nations were part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. The article gives an overview of the most important works on the topic of Slovene-Croatian relations and emphasizes the approach that takes into account people that each author considers important for the Croatian and Slovene community respectively. Although work on monitoring Slovenian-Croatian relations has intensified in recent decades, a more complex overview of this topic is still lacking. The aim of the work is to determine the reasons why individuals came to work in Croatian high schools, whether and in what ways they excelled in their work and in what ways they influenced the environment in which they found themselves. Analyzing the life and work of individual Slovenian high school teachers, it can be concluded that they came to the Croatian regions on duty, mainly because they could not choose their place of service or because they could not solve their existential problems on the territory of Slovenia. Most of the immigrant professors found their feet in the new environment and influenced the local and wider social and cultural context through their activities, often emphasizing national identity (Croatian and/or Slovene) as an important part of their activities. In this way, particularly those professors who attracted public attention through their activities and extracurricular activities and interests, such as writers, musicians, and painters, fitted into the environment into which they had moved and became respectable and recognized members of the community. Although they practiced their work professionally, a certain number of these people longed to return to Slovenia and pursue their interests in their home country. The second group of people whose life and work is analyzed in the work are Slovenes who did not find their way in the environment to which they moved, openly expressed their dissatisfaction and actively worked on Croatian territory to leave. The activities of selected individuals are largely known from the press and literature, but also from August Šenoa's literary work. From this it can be concluded that the Slovenian teachers and professors who moved to the Croatian territories shaped the community they came to through their activities, they contributed to the creation and strengthening of Slovenian-Croatian relations by have respected the specificities of the re searched and that this work provides an incentive for further research into the complex human fates of Slovene persons who migrated to Croatian territories.

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