KNJIŽEVNICI I PUBLICISTI (I DRUGI_PROTAGONISTI PISANE RIJEČI I KULTURNI RADNICI) PROFESORI I ĐACI SENJSKE GIMNAZIJE
WRITERS AND PUBLICISTS (AND OTHER PROTAGONISTS OF THE WRITTEN WORD AND CULTURAL WORKERS) PROFESSORS AND STUDENTS OF THE SENJ HIGH SCHOOL

Summary/Abstract: Senjska gimnazija-a wel known classics-program secondary school at Senj (in modern usage the word »gimanzija« means a secondary school with a classical curriculum)-has given a very important contribution to Croatian and Yugoslav literature and culture, especially as an inspirational and effective factor in developing the cultural identity of the city of Senj and the surrounding countryside, first of all a part of the Croatian Littoral and the Lika region. Not a few of its teachers and pupils established a name for themselves in different areas of political, social and cultural life during the long struggle of the Croatian people to win its national freedom and defend its existence. This came into prominence particularly in literature and other areas of the written word, beginning with glagolitic priests and Pavao Ritter Vitezovic to the rebellious and independent poetry of one of the greatest Croatian poets Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević as well as other distinguished Croatian writers born at Senj, and those protagonists of the written word who in the new situation acted also in a more finite period of time.

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