Щросмайер като меценат на литературните издания в светлината на хърватско-българските културни контакти
Strossmayer as Patron of Literary Editions in the Light of the Croatian-Bulgarian Cultural Contacts

Summary/Abstract: According the imagine of Strossmayer Zagreb had to be the center of cultural cooperation and solidarity between Southern and Central European Slavs and therefore at its founding in 1866, the present-day HAZU is named Yugoslav Academy. At the opening of the Croatian University Strossmayer expressed his desire Bulgarian intellectuals to study there, which he supports through its contributions until the opening of the Sofia University. The bishop was a generous patron of the literary activities of the friendly Bulgarian and Macedonian people as it is affirmed by the previous researchers. Invaluable was his support for the printing of the famous collection of the brothers Dimitar and Konstantin Miladinovi „Bulgarian Folk Songs“ compiled by the Miladinov brothers and issued by Constantine in 1861 in Zagreb. As a supporter of the idea of religious tolerance and study of old Slavic cultures Strossmayer has worked throughout his life for the dissemination and promotion of the cult of Saints Cyril and Methodius, and within it he has always stressed the beginning of Old Bulgarian literature, prompting many Croatian historians and inspiring and supporting a lot of writers to create works for them, including Franjo Rački, Ilija Okrugić Sremac (author of a hymn to Cyril and Methodius), Ivan Trnski, Petar Preradović, Ivan E. Šarić, Matia Cepelić, Ferdo Nikolić, Martin Nedić etc. With the financial support of the bishop have been issued important travelogues of Fra Grga Martić and Ivan Franjo Jukić for Bulgaria in the nineteenth century. In the fateful days of the liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman power the diplomatic support of Strossmayer remain written in golden letters in the memory of the Bulgarian people, especially when in 1885 the Bulgarians were attacked from behind by the Serbian army. In the same year Strossmayer make a donation to the Bulgarian Red Cross and the Bulgarian Prime Minister Petko Karavelov thanked him personally for the help. In 1898 the estimable Bulgarian literary historian and Minister of Education Ivan Shishmanov visited Đakovo and presents concise the core of the Bulgarian attitude to the bishop: „Strossmayer who so long had influence on my childhood soul stood against me in the flesh and blood, not as unattainable deity, not as dogmatist and ascetic but as a representative of everything noble, humane and sympathetic in the human nature.“

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