The book "Frauen, die studieren, sind gefährlich. Ausgevählte Porträts der slowenischen Frauen der Intelligenz (Women who study are dangerous. Selected Portraits of Slovene Women Intellectuals)" presents 9 detailed portraits of the first women from the Slovene lands to make their way to European universities, namely in Vienna, Prague and Graz. The introduction presents the position of women in the educational system of the Habsburg monarchy. The book comprises three parts: women in natural sciences (Ana Jenko, Angela Piskernik, Milena Perušek, and Ana Mayer Kansky); in the humanities (Melitta Pivec-Stele, Helena Stupan); and in culture and social sciences (Zofka Kveder, Ljudmila Poljanec, Minka Skaberne). The contributors come from different research fields and thus paint an interdisciplinary portrait of the role of women intellectuals at the break of the 19th century, their influence in their fields and of the evolution of science in the Slovene lands, and their careers, which (too) often took place in the shadow of their male spouses and colleagues. The book unveils the lives of women who courageously rejected prejudice and stereotype and gained access to scientific research for all Slovene women.
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The study deals with Karol Glaser (1845-1913), who was the first candidate to be awarded the title of Doctor of Indological Studies at the University of Vienna. It also takes into consideration the influence of Glaser's studies in Vienna on his career as a scholar and author of the earliest Slovene translations from Sanskrit.
COBISS.SI-ID: 288973056
The 1840s saw the emergence of a striking 10,000 line poem by Jernej LeviČnik, The Roman Catholic Church (Katoliška cerkev), which has remained in manuscript form. Almost eight decades ago it was analysed in detail by Slovene literary historian France Koblar, who, however, left the issue of Levičnik's doctoral studies in Graz unresolved. The paper begins by outlining the poet's doctoral studies in the light of recently discovered documents from the Graz University archives. Speculations on the extent to which his studies may have broadened his literary horizon are accompanied by the consideration of other epic poems which exerted an influence on The Roman Catholic Church.
COBISS.SI-ID: 65673826
The paper examines the manuscript of Lovro Požar's 1881 doctoral dissertation, The Development of Poetic Language among Slovenes, the first dissertation to have been written in Slovene. An account of its genesis is accompanied by the presentation of its most interesting passages. The introduction surveys roughly 90 extant doctoral dissertation manuscripts which were submitted by Slovene candidates at the Faculties of Arts in Vienna, Graz and Prague between 1872 and 1918.
COBISS.SI-ID: 68384866
The close of the 19th century saw the enrolment of several Slovenian students at Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague, mostly owing to the fame of Professor Tomáš Masaryk. The earliest doctoral dissertations submitted by the Slovenian candidates belonged to the social sciences, but the year 1910 produced a dissertation on the Slovenian school system during the Reformation, prepared by Ivan Lah, a budding man of letters, and supervised by František Drtina. The choice of themes was partly influenced by Masaryk’s positive views of Hussitism. In the early 20th century, Slovenian students were the second largest ethnic community at the Prague Faculty of Law, outnumbered only by the Czechs. Two outstanding lawyer-writers were Anton Leskovec and Anton Novačan (the later obtained his PhD in 1915). Slovenes continued to study in Prague well into the 1920s, particularly with their fellow countryman, Matija Murko. It was under Murko’s supervision that Ferdo Kozak, another eminent author, produced his dissertation on Illyrism and Slovenes (Ilirizem in Slovenci) in 1922.
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