%0 Journal Article
%T The School System in the Trogir Area during the XIXth and XXth centuries
%A Pa£¿anin
%A Ivan
%J -
%D 2000
%X Sa£¿etak During the first decades of the 19th century, alongside economic backwardness and dire living conditions, the school system found itself in a very difficult state. It was neglected and left to the church. From earliest times schooling in the Trogir area had been underdeveloped so that when the first Austrian administration was inplemented it confirmed the lamentable state of education of the people in this region of Dalmatia. In 1802 Trogir saw the opening of a school of medicine called the Class of St. Lazarus which at the time had the status of a high school but it was not of long duration because it was closed down by 1809. The class itself lasted up to 1821. The decree concerning public education from 1807 devolved it to being a gymnasium while the reorganisation of schools from 1811 established a college (a lower gymnasium) in Trogir. During the French administration public elementary schools for boys and girls were established in Trogir but did not last long. At the end of the 1810/1811 school year there were boys schools in Trogir, Ka£¿tel Luk£¿i£¿, Ka£¿tel £¿tafili£¿ and Ka£¿tel Novi. Up to 1826 when a two-grade higher boys school and a one year girls lower elementary school at the convent of Benedictyine nuns was opened in Trogir, the school system stagnated and there were no major changes in the number of schools which used Italian under the jurisdiction of the church. Gradually the number of boys elementary schools increased, especially the auxilliary schools operated by parish priests in the villages while the existent ones saw improvements. The parish priest Mate Mili£¿evi£¿ began a public classroom teaching in Croatian on the island of Drvenik. The local priest ran a lower elementary school in Marina in 1844 while a boys elementary school was established in 1888 to be transformed in 1897 into a six year boys public elementary school. Illiteracy in Trogir and its vicinity was large as can be seen from the Trogir marriage register which records 243 marriages from 1850 to 1857 with 217 illiterate marriage partners. In 1862 the Trogir boys elementary school was promoted to the level of a higher four year elementary school. In 1869 the elementary girls school in the convent of St. Nicholas became a private girls school. The same year an agricultural course was started and connected to the boys elementary school. Under the influence of revolutionary developments in Europe, the government in Wien decreed in 1848 that teaching in elementary schools ought also to be carried out in the mother tongue of those attending school. The decree was slowly
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