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	Founding of the Academy
		The Academy issue was offlcially raised by Bishop Strossmayer at a session of the Croatian parliament on 29 April 1861.
		During the existence of the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945), the name of the Academy was changed to the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts; in the Socialist Republic of Croatia it resumed its activities under the former name of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts.
		The new Croatian Academy Act was passed by the Croatian parliament on 26 June 1991, confirming the importance of all the activities of the highest institution of sciences and arts in the Republic of Croatia.
	mahazu.hazu.hr /ENG/Founding.html (1098 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Latin Academia Scientiarum et Artium Croatica, Croatian Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti) is the national academy of Croatia.
		The institution was founded in Zagreb (then mostly known as Agram, in German) in 1867 as the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts.
		The decision to elect Ivo Padovan to be the new president of the Academy resolved this dilemma in favour of Tudjman and the HDZ.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Croatian_Academy_of_Sciences_and_Arts (379 words)

	The Department of Literature
		The Department of Literature, which includes the Institute for the History of Croatian Literature, Theater and Music, has been simultaneously studying and publishing Croatian literature from its beginning to the present.
		The proceedings from these symposia, which the department has subsequently published, discuss Croatian poetic, dramatic, and prose achievements from the earliest times to the present, and thus encompass various literary phenomena and the most distinguished personalities.
		The Institute for the History of Croatian Literature, Theater, and Music publishes critical editions of works by Croatian writers, collects and publishes various documents on literature and theater in the Republic of Croatia, and is laying the groundwork for the establishment of a theatrical museum.
	mahazu.hazu.hr /ENG/Dep6.html (353 words)

	Croatian skeletons reveal changing status of cancer in Europe across the centuries
		Slaus and his colleagues1 analysed the skeletal remains of the 3,160 individuals in the Skeletal Collection of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts for evidence of neoplasms (uncontrolled and abnormal tissue growth).
		The Croatian Skeletal Collection demonstrates how cancer is, in large part, a consequence of our recently significantly increased life-span, as well as significant changes to our lifestyle.
		The European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) is the pan-European organisation representing the scientists and researchers involved in basic science and research in the field of oncology.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-07/foec-csr070604.php (470 words)

	CROATIAN LANGUAGE FROM THE ELEVENTH CENTURY TO THE COMPUTER AGE
		Croatian literature participated in all the major European artistic and intellectual movements from the Renaissance and the Reformation to the contemporary currents.
		In this spirit, Josip Juraj Strossmayer, a prominent Croatian philanthropist and Catholic bishop of Djakovo, established the South Slav Academy of Sciences and Arts — Jugoslovenska Akademija Znanosti i Umjetnosti in 1866 at Zagreb.
		Having concluded that the Croatian language was being degraded to the status of a local dialect, eighteen Croatian scholarly institutions published The Declaration Concerning the Name and Position of Croatian Literary Language in March 1967.
	www.croatianacademy.org /croatian-language-vol25-26.htm (1548 words)

	1998/01/06 17:00 CROATIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS CLOSER TO THE RULING
		The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Croatian PEN have remained the only institutions in that ruthless seven-year war that the HDZ has not managed to silence and get control of.
		The decision to elect Ivo Padovan to be the new president of the Academy resolved this dilemma in favour of Tudjman and the HDZ.
		That is how the Academy bent its backbone and joined the destroyed science, dilapidated institutes, instrumentalised universities and an avalanche of trash which has replaced art in the state which educated youngsters are mercilessly runing away from.
	www.aimpress.ch /dyn/trae/archive/data/199801/80106-035-trae-zag.htm (1037 words)

	Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Information
		Bishop Strossmayer also initiated the building of the Academy Palace in the Zrinjevac park of Zagreb, and the Palace was completed in 1880.
		The Academy published the scientific magazine Rad (rad=work in Croatian language) between 1867 and 1882, when each of the individual scientific classes of the Academy started printing their own magazines.
		The Academy was named "Yugoslav" until 1991 (except for a brief intermission in the time period between 1941 and 1945 during the Nazi regime of the Independent State of Croatia) when it was renamed to "Croatian".
	www.bookrags.com /Croatian_Academy_of_Sciences_and_Arts (381 words)

	American Academy of Arts and Sciences Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Their objective, as stated in its charter, was to "cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honour, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people." They were joined by Robert Treat Paine and 58 local community leaders to charter the organization in 1780.
		In terms of prestige, a Fellowship or a Foreign Honorary Membership of the Academy is regarded as second only to the Nobel Awards; in fact, in recent years, most Nobel Prize recipients were elected to the Fellowship prior to becoming Nobel laureates.
		The modern academy is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences.html (246 words)

	ESF Member organisation - Croatia (Hrvatska) - Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Hrvatska akademija znanosti i ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		ESF Member organisation - Croatia (Hrvatska) - Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti
		The Academy promotes and organizes scientific research and encourages the application of the findings of this research, develops artistic and cultural activities, and is concemed with Croatian cultural heritage and its affirmation throughout the world;
		It makes proposals and gives its opinion on the promotion of sciences and arts in the fields which are of special importance to the Republic of Croatia.
	www.esf.org /esf_aboutesf_members_page.php?country=95&organisation=78&page=1&language=0 (155 words)

	Culture > CROATIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE - HERCEG BOSNA :: Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina ::
		No Croatian dictionaries (apart from historical "Croatian or Serbian", conceived in the 19th century) appeared until 1985, when Communist centralism was well in the process of decay.
		Croatian religious and philosophical heritage and terminology vs. Serbian religious and philosophical heritage and terminology.
		According to the eminent Croatian linguist Ljudevit Jonke, it was imposed on the Croats.
	www.hercegbosna.org /engleski/croatian_language.html (4338 words)

	Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences - The InterAcademy Panel on International Issues
		The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (CASA), founded in 1861, is a nongovernmental learned society for the promotion of sciences, humanities and arts.
		The Academy is divided into 25 institutes with a total of 150 scientists.
		CASA publishes a scholarly journal, organizes scientific conferences, artistic exhibits and meetings and maintains collaboration with scientific academies in other countries.
	www.interacademies.net /?id=4269 (98 words)

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		The University in modern sense, including science and engineering, was founded in Zagreb in 1874, thanks to the efforts of the great Croatian Maecenas bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer (born in Osijek, 1815-1905).
		He founded the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb in 1866, long before Yugoslavia was created as a state (first as the Kingodom of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes in 1918, and then renamed to Yugoslavia in 1929).
		The Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts was renamed to the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) first in 1941 and then again in 1991.
	www.croatianworld.net /Letters/163.htm (1342 words)

	Internationale Kooperationen
		Primarily, they are to set a formal framework for a closer cooperation between the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and its partners abroad, especially in regard to concerted scientific events and projects (such as symposia, conferences and workshops), as well as the exchange of scientists and information.
		The Academy's various international cooperations have contributed, and continue to contribute to the further advancement of research in the context of the “Academies Programme” and the “Interdisciplinary Research Groups”, as well as the collected activities of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities – in particular in the development of scientific networks.
		Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (1999)
	www.bbaw.de /akademie/internationalekoop_e.html (216 words)

	The Nineteenth Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		There were several science departments at the Faculty of Philosophy, and the work of university professors and their associates meant the beginning of a new age in the study of science in Croatia.
		The Academy subsequently underwent a reorganization required by the educational reform in the Austriam Monarchy which was inspired by the momentous debvelopment of the natural sciences in the nineteenth century.
		This national academy of sciences and arts took the name Accademia Slavorum meridionalium (of the South Slavs) which was an expression of their romantic-utopian views concerning the unity of the European South.
	jagor.srce.hr /zuh/English/nv19_e.htm (3921 words)

	...:: apriori komunikacije ::...
		In late March 2007, in the Palace of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, there was a grand opening of the exhibition called „HAZU in photos“.
		The President of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, prof.
		The Croatian President Stjepan Mesic has been a general sponsor of this project and the Croatian Government announced that the state taxes on the scholarship amount of 4.000 kuna have been withdrawn.
	www.apriori.hr /eng (616 words)

	Matica hrvatska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Before the Croatian spring, in 1967, Matica hrvatska presented a declaration referring to the name and the status of the Croatian language where the members support the equality of all four languages existing in Yugoslavia: Slovene, Croatian, Serbian and Macedonian in civil and legal acts and in the Constitution.
		The Government’s response to the Declaration was strict, it was discussed in the Croatian Sabor (Parliament), signatories were politically convicted and the sharp end of political criticism focused on “Matica hrvatska” and its membership.
		In this project the Croatian written word is described from its beginning to present day, and its triliteracy and trilingualismis is presented through the critical and scientific analysis.
	www.matica.hr /www/mhwww.nsf/english.htm (2323 words)

	Vladimír Birgus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Ivan Kožarić, member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, was born on 10 June 1921 in Petrinja, Croatia.
		His most notable appearances were at the Alexandria Biennale, the exhibition "La jeune sculpture" in Paris in 1960, the Venice Biennale in 1976, in Sao Paulo in 1979, at the exhibition of Croatian sculpture in Duisburg in 1994, in the Paris Museum of Modern Art in 2002 and at the Kassel Documenta 11 in 2002.
		Kožarić is represented in numerous contemporary art collections in Europe and the world as well as in anthologies and reviews of contemporary sculpture.
	www.galerija-rigo.hr /06/kozaric_en_bio.htm (338 words)

	Ancient Skeleton Collection Yields Cancer Clues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A new study of over 3,000 human skeletons in a Croatian archaeological collection suggests that cancer is more common today than at any point in humankind's history, the report's authors say.
		A team of Croatian archaeologists and medics studied ancient human remains dating from 5,300 B.C. to the mid-19th century.
		Slaus is an anthropologist with the department of archaeology at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2004/07/0713_040713_skeletoncancer.html (538 words)

	Vlatko Pavletic - biography
		In 1955 he acquired a university degree in Croatian language and literature at the Faculty of Philosopy in Zagreb and in 1975 a title of doctor, with a thesis Stablo Ujevićeve poezije.
		He is a member of Matica hrvatska and PEN-Club, and since 1987 a member of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, where he acted as a vice president for six years, and before that three years as a secretary of the Department of Literature.
		In 1972 he was arrested, along with the group of prominent figures of Matica hrvatska (Tuđman, Đodan, Veselica, Gotovac, and others), and then sentenced to 18 months of severe jail for being a Croatian nationalist and for «attempting to overthrow and change the organization of the state».
	www.vlatkopavletic.com.hr /engl/biography.htm (658 words)

	Croatian Libraries
		In the next few years, during the war, the Croatian Academic and Research Network (CARNet) was established, based on the TCP/IP protocol and UNIX operating system on all network nodes.
		In the field of natural sciences, the most outstanding are the Rudjer Boskovic Institute Library and the libraries of the Faculty of Science: the Central Chemistry Library, the Central Mathematics Library, the Central Geography Library and the Library of the Faculty of Agronomy.
		After several years I don't pretend to even begin to understand the complexities of the situation in the area where my partner was born and am therefore surprised and disappointed that you felt able to publish paragraphs 2 and 3 with their political comments in their present format.
	www.ariadne.ac.uk /issue5/croatia (1678 words)

	Croatian National Bibliography
		After the Illyrian movement there were some notable works by Croatian bibliographers published in Croatia, for example Kukuljevic Sakcinski's 1860 Bibliografia hrvatska, but one cannot discount works involving publications of two or more of the South Slavic peoples or works produced outside the borders of the current country of Croatia.
		Compiled by the historian and founder of library science in Croatia, Ivan Kukuljevic Sakcinski, whose private library became one of the founding collections of the library of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, this bibliography is a classic in Croatian letters.
		Covering 105 years of Croatian monographic publishing in all subject areas, this retrospective national bibliography is a major source for bibliographic information for the time period of 1835-1940.
	www.library.uiuc.edu /spx/class/nationalbib/natbibcroatia.htm (1864 words)

	Biserka Belicza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		According to the indicators of the demographic structure of that time, persons over the age of 50 had a relatively small share in the overall Croatian population, which influenced the orientation to individual solutions of social and health problems related to old age and disability, mainly at the family level.
		The status of the elderly and development of an organized social-caritative and health care for elderly and disabled in the Croatian towns, communes, and feuds were under a strong influence of Christianity which considered the disabled and abandoned elderly unable to work, poor and life-threatened group requiring merciful Christian assistance of their community.
		Old age and aging, dying and death are discussed in the preserved manuscripts and treatises of Croatian physicians, scholars, and philosophers.
	www.cmj.hr /1997/38/3/belitza.htm (362 words)

	WWW.HR - Croatian Academy of Sciencies and Arts
		Educational System Universities Academy of Sciencies and Arts Matrix Croatica Lexicographic Institute National and University Library
		Croatian Academy of Sciencies and Arts gathers the most important intelectuals from all fields of science.
		The Croatian Academy's scientific and artistic activities are carried out through its nine departments, as well as through its scientific councils and committees, and scientific and research units (institutes).
	www.www.hr /croatia/science/hazu (101 words)

	Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
		One of the craters on the Moon has been named after him
		Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Detailed information about Academy history and bodies, Brošura HAZU, Zagreb, 1999.
		Nikola Tesla (1856.-1943.), inventor; greatly contributed to development of alternating-current transmission, honorary member of the Academy.
	mahazu.hazu.hr /ENG/indexENG.html (72 words)

	Prince Philip and the Baska tablet
		When Britain's Queen Elisabeth II and Prince Philip paid a visit to Zagreb in 1972, they were invited to see the Gallery of the Yugoslav (now Croatian) Academy of Sciences and Arts.
		While leaving the main entrance hall, Prince Phillip (about 2m tall), surrounded by many people, accidentally turned his head, and noticed the huge Baska tablet (800 kg), exhibited in the Academy as one of the most important Croatian cultural monuments.
		The Prince, led by Academician Grga Novak, and accompanied by a long cortege of the diplomats and representatives of Yugoslav culture and politics of the day, approached this innocent monument, and asked: "What is this?" By the time scholars finally satisfied His Royal Highness's famous curiosity, protocol was in complete havoc.
	www.croatianhistory.net /etf/filip.html (262 words)

	British Academy \| Guide to Awards - International Schemes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Where no attachment to an Academy institute is possible, applicants should consider whether other channels might be more appropriate, such as the British Academy's programme of Research Grants.
		Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague
		The Academy has Memoranda of Understanding with the Academy of Sciences of Albania, the Armenian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the Kosova Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences to promote research visits and joint activities.
	www.britac.ac.uk /funding/guide/intl/ceefsu.html (284 words)

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