Преписка Триве Милитара са Лазаром и Душаном Дунђерским или О васпитању
Correspondence between Trivo Militar and Lazar and Dusan Dunderski or about Education

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the position of a rich bourgeois family Dunđerski in the society of Kingdom of Yugoslavia, through one aspect of family life: education of the young. The survey was based on the example of a family of respected landowners, merchants and industrialist in Vojvodina. Family relationships can be viewed from different standpoints, through the correspondence between a teacher and students, and can show how the education of children influenced the position of the family in the society. The correpondence gives an insight into education of younger family members, family relations, social status and aspirations, accepted values, views on sexuality and marriage. It has been evident that the authority of the father, as a pillar of the family, no longer existed and that the family had been envisaged as a source of sole material support. Egoism and selfishness prevailed in the fourth generation of Dunđerski’s. They considered the family property pimarily a personal property, for which they qualify by birth and which they wanted at their own disposal as soon as possible. The lack of author-ity, purpose or a need to find new areas for production, family business and family life, had weakened even before the Second World War. In earlier times, Dunđerski looked up for role model among Hungarian nobility, later in the European bourgeoisie, while a new generation was self-sufficient, and its only goal was to reach their «own» wealth and to enjoy it. After the Second World War, the family gave in to the events that followed and completely destroyed the family wealth and influence. Members of the family, in which decadence prevailed for decades, failed to fit into the new circumstances even as individuals.

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