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See also:JOSEPH See also:GEORGE [Josip JURAJ STROSMAJER] See also:STROSSMAYER (1815-1905) , Croatian See also:bishop and politician, was See also:born at See also:Esseg in Croatia-Slavonia on the 4th of See also:February 1815, See also:Strossmayer was of See also:German descent and his parents had emigrated from See also:Linz in See also:Austria . He was educated at the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:seminary of See also:Djakovo, in his native See also:country, and at See also:Budapest, where he studied See also:theology . In 1838 he took See also:holy orders, and during the next ten years became lecturer on theology at Djakovo, See also:chaplain to the See also:Austrian See also:emperor, and director of the Augustinian See also:body at See also:Rome . In 1849 he was consecrated bishop of Djakovo, with the See also:official See also:title " Bishop of Bosnia, Slavonia and Sirmium." He fostered the growth of See also:Slavonic nationalism in Croatia-Slavonia, in See also:Dalmatia, and among the See also:Slovenes of See also:south Austria, aiding the See also:Ban Jellacic in his See also:campaigns against See also:Hungary (1848-49), and subsequently becoming a recognized See also:leader of the opposition to Hungarian predominance (see CROATIA-SLAVONIA) . Besides being foremost among the founders of the South Slavonic See also:Academy in 1867, and of See also:Agram University in 1874, he helped to reorganize the whole educational See also:system of Dalmatia and Croatia-Slavonia . He built a See also:palace and See also:cathedral at Djakovo, founded a seminary for the Bosnian Croats, presented the South Slavonic Academy with a See also:gallery of valuable pictures, and published collections of See also:national songs and tales . He also aided Augustin Theiner; then librarian at the Vatican, to compile his Vetera monumenta Slavorum meridionalium historiam illustrantia (Rome, 1863) . As a theologian, Strossmayer became prominent by his energetic opposition to the See also:dogma of See also:infallibility at the Vatican See also:council of 1870, and by his denunciation of the See also:Jesuits, while they in return charged him with allowing Roman Catholics to adopt the orthodox See also:Greek See also:confession . For years he refused to accept the See also:doctrine of infallibility, but ultimately he yielded . Despite this attitude, he enjoyed the confidence of See also:Pope See also:Leo XIII . He headed the Slavonic deputations which visited Rome in 1881 and 1888, and won for them the retention of a Slavonic See also:liturgy by the Roman Catholics of See also:Illyria . Strossmayer withdrew from See also:political See also:life in 1888, in consequence of a rebuke administered to him by the emperor for his public expiession of sympathy with See also:Russia and his consistent hostility to Hungary . He died in his ninety-first See also:year, on the loth of See also:April 190.5 . He was a See also:count of the Holy Roman See also:Empire, a bishop of the pontifical See also:throne, and a member of the theological faculties of Budapest and See also:Vienna . By Leo XIII. he was decorated with the archiepiscopal See also:pallium . |
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