Tadija Smičiklas

Tadija Smičiklas ( born October 1, 1843 in Reštovo, Empire Austria, today Croatia, † June 8, 1914 in Zagreb, Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia, today Croatia) was a Croatian historian, writer and politician.

Life

Tadija Smičiklas was located in 1843 in the village of Reštovo, the Croatian Žumberak born. Denominational he came from a Greek-Catholic family. Smičiklas first attended in Sošice the local primary school. He then moved to Zagreb Gornji Grad and received his further education in the Episcopal High School of the Greek- Catholic diocese Križevci.

After high school, Smičiklas felt the desire to become politically active at a young age. This wish was for the first time was by his high school teacher, Professor Matija Mesic, President of the Croatian cultural association Matica hrvatska, nurtured and looked at the Smičiklas as his role model.

After his studies in Vienna and Prague, based on the Subject Political History, Smičiklas had been a lecturer in history in the cities of Rijeka and Osijek magisterial short works, also from the year 1873 in Zagreb. Ibid Smičiklas created an important historical work about his home country. This was published in two volumes in 1879 and 1882. This work is regarded as the first overall historical summary of the Croats in his home country.

Through the Croatian slavonicists Ljudevit Gaj, as confirmed also by the Illyrian movement in that time Croatian embossed, Smičiklas was politically active for the first time this movement. During this time he learned soon after the Croatian writer August Šenoa know. Tadija Smičiklas became president of the Croatian Cultural Association " Matica Hrvatska " and inherited in this capacity his high school teacher Matija Mesic. It was followed by the presidency of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts. Moreover, it was a deputy in the Croatian Sabor Smičiklas.

Tadija Smičiklas always remained his home, today's Croatia, as well as his home region Žumberak very connected. He sat down politically not only in the Croatian Parliament as an MP, but in many of his works for a possible independent Croatian state system a. Even his ancestors, the Uskok he widemtete some works.

Tadija Smičiklas died on June 8, 1914, at the age of 71 years in Zagreb and was buried in the cemetery Mirogoj.