Boj za slovensko univerzo v letu 1901 v luči časnikov Slovenec in Slovenski narod

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In 1901, the Slovenian newspapers Slovenec and Slovenski narod uniformly reported on the fight for the Slovenian university, although they represented two different political options and were too many times biased in their reporting on current issues. At times, they were even very offensive towards the leaders of the opposition party. The most controversial thing in the fight for the local university was the desire of Italians to establish an Italian university in Trieste. Slovenian students and intellectuals who claimed that Trieste was not even an Italian city and, therefore, did not need its own university expressed strong opposition against such establishment. On the other hand, they backed up the establishment of the University of Ljubljana stating that over two million Slovenes and Croats lived in the monarchy, whereas the number of Italians did not even exceed 730,000. On 8 November 1901 in Vienna, Slovenian, Croatian and Serbian students sent a memorandum, which outlined the reasons why the university in Ljubljana should be established, to the Rector of the University of Vienna. During the period of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Slovenes, however, failed to get their university. Only after the First World War and the collapse of the Danubian Monarchy, the university was finally established on 23 July 1919.

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