Gavro Manojlović (27 October 1856 – 1 November 1939) was a Croatian Serb historian, politician, and academic.

Gavro Manojlović
Born27 October 1856
Died1 November 1939(1939-11-01) (aged 83)

Biography

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Gavro Manojlović was born in Zadar to a family of Serbian descent.[1] He studied in Zagreb and Vienna, where he received his doctorate in philosophy of history and classical philology in 1896. From 1880 he worked as a high school teacher and as a school principal in Požega, Osijek and Zagreb.[2] From 1902, he was a full professor of general history of the ancient world at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb.[citation needed] He studied ancient history, Byzantine studies, philosophy of history.[2] Manojlović also wrote a number of textbooks.[citation needed]

On two occasions, from 1908 to 1910 and from 1913 to 1918, he was a representative of the Croat-Serb Coalition in the Croatian Parliament.[citation needed] Manojlović signed an open letter of support for Serbian members of the Croat-Serb Coalition slandered by Unionist Ban Pavao Rauch, for which he was suspended and prematurely retired from his university post, in a crackdown of the government on opposition intellectuals.[3]

As one of the prominent supporters of Yugoslavism, in 1918, Manojlović was a member of the National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, and in 1919 a member of the Temporary National Representation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.[4]

From 1908, he was a regular member, and from 1924 to 1933 the president of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He founded the HAZU Oriental Collection.[5]

He was the editor of the youth newspaper Pobratim and Nastavni vjesnik.[citation needed]

Publications

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Poetry Collections

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  • Mladi dani Veljkovi ("Young Days of Veljkovi", 1880)

History

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  • O godini prijenosa sv. Anastazije u Zadar ("About the Year of Transfer of St. Anastasia in Zadar", 1901)
  • Jadransko pomorje IX. stoljeća : u svjetlu istočno-rimske (bizantinske) povijesti ("Adriatic Sea IX Century: In the Light of Eastern Roman (Byzantine) History", 1902)
  • Povijest staroga Orijenta ("History of the Ancient Orient", 1923)
  • Sile pokretnice i pravilnosti u univerzalnoj historiji ("Driving Forces and Regularities in Universal History", 1927)

References

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  1. ^ Tomašegović 2022, p. 133.
  2. ^ a b "Gavro Manojlović – historian". 'Znameniti Srbi' series. Zagreb: Serb National Council.
  3. ^ Tomašegović 2022, p. 131.
  4. ^ Tomašegović 2022, p. 132.
  5. ^ Glasnik HAZU 11/2020., str. 15

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