hrvatski

Povijest turkologije u Hrvatskoj

The strivings for an institutional inception of research related to Turkish themes were evinced already in the late nineteenth century when the idea was proposed that the Chair of Turkish Studies be established at the University of Zagreb but wasn’t realized at the time. In 1927 the Oriental Collection was established at the Yugoslav Academy of Arts and Sciences for which a number of Arabic, Turkish and Persian manuscripts were being collected in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sandzak, Kosovo and Metohija. In the Collection was employed Alexei Olesnicki, a Russian Orientalist of Ukrainian descent, who taught the Turkish language at Zagreb’s Faculty of Philosophy from the academic year 1936/1937 to his death in 1943. It was thus the case that the study of Turkish expired even before it would be institutionalized as a separate chair. The revival of the idea to establish a university course of Turkish Studies would have to bide its time until 1992 when Professor Nenad Moačanin proposed that the Chair of Turkish Studies be set up at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb. The then Head of the Department of General Linguistics, academician Mislav Ježić, strongly supported the initiative and introduced the course of study into the Department. Professor Ekrem Čaušević lent his invaluabe contribution to the establishment and constitution of the Chair by devising all the study plans and programs including the most recent Bologna requirements, in addition to working on its personnel development while being for years a single tenured employee. Since the academic year 2003/2004 teaching assistants Marta Andrić and Azra Abadžić Navaey have been employed, and were joined in 2005/2006 by Barbara Kerovec in the same capacity. Despite a relatively short institutional history and a few scholars, Turkish Studies in Croatia is recognized worldwide.

turkologija; osmanistika; Orijentalna zbirka HAZU; Ekrem Čaušević; Katedra za turkologiju Filozofskog fakulteta u Zagrebu

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