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FAMOUS CROATS - PETAR ŠEGEDIN | | Value: | 5 kn | | Author: | Hrvoje Šercar, painter and graphic designer, Zagreb | | Size: | 29,82 x 48,28 mm | | Paper: | white 102g, gummed | | Perforation: | Comb,14 | | Tehnique: | Multicoloured Offsetprint | | Printed by: | "Zrinski" - Čakovec | | Date of issue: | 22.4.2009 | | Quantity: | 100000 |
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PETAR ŠEGEDIN (1909 – 1998) Petar Šegedin was born on July 8, 1909 in Žrnovo, island of Korčula. He went to a training college in Dubrovnik and attended two year post-secondary school in Zagreb he enrolled and graduated at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. He was a Secretary of Matrix Croatica/Matica hrvatska (1946 – 1947) and – on two occasions – president of the Croatian Writers’ Society. From 1956 until 1960 he was the cultural attache in the Yugoslav Embassy in Paris, and after returning to Zagreb was a free lance artist. He was a regular member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts from 1964. He died in Zagreb, on September 1, 1998. He appeared in literature with fiction articles in Krleža’s Pečat in 1939 under the pen-name Petar Kružić. After the war he became a paradigmatic writer of Croatian literary existentialism, resisting a dominant concept of social realism, and was severely criticised by the bureaucrats. Already in his first novels – The Children of God (1946) and Isolationists (1947) – he created a special type of moral meditative prose preoccupied with symbols of existential situations (fear of death, anxiety, alienation, sin, guilt) and introducing strategies to overcoming uncomfortable situations. All characters in his novels represent personifications, typifying a certain quality of human behaviour: total alienation and concern in regard to how we should lead our lives. His novels are full of intellectual passion and philosophical thinking; the right expression is coined in a syntagm a philosophy of literature. Dostojevski and French existentialists were his literary models. Šegedin considered literature above all as a possibility of gaining insight into the human existence and at the same time questioning it; in the background is a process of building a plot, developing a story or creating a dramatic plot. The existentialist trilogy is complemented by a novel Crni smiješak (1969) created by rewriting of previously published short stories. It elaborates on shaping of human destiny in literary works, and describes literary writing as a therapeutic and confessional activity. In his later novels (The Garden of Gethsemane, 1981.; The Wind, 1986.; A Petrified Circle, 1988.), along with describing existential themes (suicide issues and self-destruction), he also deals with the metaphysical problems (good-evil), relations between a singled out individual and the authority, ideology and aesthetics, freedom and meaning. His literary pieces are more and more immersed into social and political context, however always bordering with philosophical essay and meditative prose. In his short novel A Traitor (Kolo, 1969, a book printed in 1993) he is preoccupied with conformism, national treason, fear, silence and blindness of Croatian intellectuals in a recent past. A Traitor is actually a herald of his famous essay We Are All Responsible? (1971) at the time of a political movement the Croatian Spring he shook up the intellectual and cultural establishment. Šegedin wrote numerous short stories and novelettes (Dead Sea, 1954; Orpheus in a Little Garden, 1964; Holy Devil, 1966; Silence, 1983; Face to Face, 1987; Bright Nights, 1993) on the opening pages interpreting anecdotal and seemingly banal situations, and as a rule portraying traumatized individuals, immersed into loneliness and sadness. A scene of action is most often a society situated in an isolated island, with characteristic silence of a rocky ground, shimmering shadows and dark anticipations. In his best novels (Holy Devil, A Day, What About a Late Pavulina…) Šegedin is exploring as a writer social issues and atmosphere. He achieved considerable literary fame with his travel pieces (On a Way, 1953; Encounters, 1962) reminiscing about culture and art, intellectual curiosity, describing inner feelings created under the impression of already experienced events, ignoring adventures and picaresque descriptions. Word for Word (1971) is a theoretical text based on logic and reasoning of autonomy of art and reciprocal conditioning of a content and a form in a performance of an aesthetic act. In most of his works Šegedin is preoccupied with a lonely and jeopardized individual, through analyses and discussions on the crises and a downfall of human values, persisting on the model of intellectual prose, which by the seriousness of themes and the quality of execution, guarantees him a high place in the Croatian contemporary literature. | FAMOUS CROATS | Serie: 723 | Type: P | Stamps in serie: 4
The stamps have been issued in 20-stamp sheets, and the Croatian Post has also issued a First Day Cover (FDC). |  | | Stamps no: 724
FAMOUS CROATS - JURAJ HABDELIĆ | | Value: | 3,5 kn | | Author: | Hrvoje Šercar, painter and graphic designer, Zagreb | | Size: | 29,82 x 48,28 mm | | Paper: | white 102g, gummed | | Perforation: | Comb,14 | | Tehnique: | Multicoloured Offsetprint | | Printed by: | "Zrinski" - Čakovec | | Date of issue: | 22.4.2009 | | Quantity: | 100000 |
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JURAJ HABDELIĆ (1609 – 1678) Juraj Habdelić was born in Staro Čiče in a family of low rank aristocracy of Turopolje in April 1609. He was a writer and a lexicographer. He went to gymnasium probably the Jesuit Secondary School in Zagreb and continued his education in Vienna and in 1630 he entered the Jesuit order. After two years in novitiate in Leoben he graduated Philosophy in Graz (1632 – 1635), and later on he worked as a teacher in Jesuit secondary schools in Rijeka, Varaždin and Zagreb. He graduated theology in Trnava, Slovakia (1639 – 1643), and gave lectures on Jesuit collegiums in Varaždin and Trnava, where he was graduated for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He was the Dean of the Varaždin Jesuit collegium from 1649 until 1652, and after that departed to Zagreb, where he was also appointed on two occasions a Dean of the Jesuit collegium (1654 – 1657 and 1663 – 1666), he preached in a parish church St. Marcus, and was engaged in other church activities as a priest and a teacher. Thanks to him the Zagreb Jesuit Gymnasium was transformed into the Academy in the year 1669. He died in Zagreb on November 27, 1678. From the beginning of the Croatian literary historiography (I. Kukuljević) up to the present day Habdelić is considered as one of the most prominent among Croatian writers of the 17th century, writing in a Kajkavian dialect. Two books of religious prose, Mirror of Saint Mary (Graz, 1662) and First Sin of our Father Adam (Graz, 1674), represent his main literary works. The Mirror of Saint Mary is divided into seven parts; each part evaluates one human virtue or condition (sainthood, intellect and prudence, material wealth, health, beauty, strength, good reputation) describing it as a possible source of arrogance, and as a counter balance and a model of modesty suggested in examples from life of the Virgin Mary. A literary work twice as long The First Sin of our Father Adam (1181 pages) is divided into three unequal parts. It begins with the Biblical History and ends with a description of the Original Sinn. A motive of creating Eve from the Adam’s rib Habdelić used for a lengthy discussion on relations between husband and wife. In the second part he is elaborating on human tendency to sin due to Adam’s original sin („decadence of a human nature“). He also wrote about Peasant Rebellion led by Matija Gubec in the year 1573, based on a historical literary work by N. Istvánffy. In his work Habdelić forged a tale about a famous speech of Matija Gubec delivered on the eve of a decisive battle. The third part, nearly five times longer in comparison to the previous two parts, is dedicated to seven mortal sins. The most interesting substantially is the first part on arrogance; Habdelić guardedly elaborates on actual events in Croatia at that time, Zrinski-Frankopan conspiracy, criticises outward adorning („dressing up“), arrogance of educated men, even arrogant behaviour among priests. The last part is written in Latin against spiritual laziness of priests, so that the common people would not understand it. His both prose works have similar compositions, characteristics of style and are divided in the main numbered parts („parts“ in Habdelić nomenclature), chapters („del“) and articles („kotrig“). According to some literary historians (9/10) his are the works with the content taken from literature, mostly from the Bible, medieval literature, and contemporary theological writers. However, particularly in The first Sinn of our Father Adam, there is a panoramic picture of the way of life of the people of that time: on housing, clothing, diet, customs. Literary historians particularly cherished Habdelić’ style: his developed hypotaxis, Baroque metaphoric expressions, satirical note. His work is full with strength and freshness, of moral didactic issues with numerous examples („pelda“) easy to be accommodated in sermons. His Dictionar is the first lexicographic work in the Kajakvian literature. It consists of around twelve thousand words and phrases translated into Latin. Dictionary was written for secondary school students of north Croatia. Belostenec, contemporary of Habdelić, used it for his ambitious lexicographical work Gazophylacium, (published posthumous in 1740). Habdelić although a strong moralist mentioned in his Dikcionar names of forty wine sorts.
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