Ujević Mate: Hrvatska enciklopedija I - IV

Name: Hrvatska enciklopedija I - IV
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Author: Ujević Mate
Publisher: HIBZ
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Hrvatska enciklopedija I - IV

Ujević Mate

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Croatian encyclopedia I - IV

Chief editor: Mate Ujević Very well preserved copies! The project of creating a general and national encyclopedia called the Croatian encyclopedia was initiated in the late 1930s in Zagreb by writer and publicist Mate Ujević. Although it was called "megalomaniac", the project received the support of the authorities and the Catholic Church after the creation of the Banovina Hrvatska, and the articles were written by many scientists from the University of Zagreb and other scientific centers of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The encyclopedia was conceived in 12 volumes, and the printing of the first one was completed on February 10, 1941, a little less than two months before the Axis Powers attack on Yugoslavia. Publishing of the encyclopedia was continued by the Croatian Publishing (Bibliographic) Institute, which operated in the Independent State of Croatia. The fifth volume, concluding with the term "Electricity", was published at the beginning of 1945. After the entry of partisan troops into Zagreb, almost the entire print run was destroyed and today, unlike the first four, it is more difficult to find. How unfair it is to condemn the project of publishing this encyclopedia as "Ustasha" is evidenced, for example, by the fact that in the article Man (Vol. IV, 1942) a very clear and detailed condemnation of racist theories is given as unscientific and unfounded. It is pointed out, for example, that, in contrast to attempts to prove the superiority of a pure race, "it can often be established that prominent people are of mixed race". It was quite brave to announce this in a state (NDH) that itself accepted racist theories (Croats as an Aryan race). HIBZ was not covered by the then censorship regulations until the end of 1944. After the fifth volume, the project was discontinued, but many collaborators, among them the editor-in-chief Mate Ujević, participated in the creation of the JLZ General Encyclopedia and other editions of the FNRJ Lexicographic Institute, which was founded in 1950 at the instigation of Miroslav Krleža. Today, it is called the "Miroslav Krleža" Lexicographic Institute and, in addition to other publications, has been publishing the new Croatian Encyclopedia since 1999.

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