Department of Croatian language and literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Abstract
At the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, for more than a hundred and twenty years now, the Old Slavonic language, comparative Slavonic grammar, as well as the Slavonic alphabets have been taught. In every period these subjects were taught by prominent Slavists of the time: Lavoslav Geitler, Tomo Maretić, Dragutin
Boranić, Stjepan Ivšić, Josip Hamm and Eduard Hercigonja. Đuro Šurmin, Milan Rešetar and Đuro Skarić taught them sporadically.
In this text an attempt is made to determine the place which the above mentioned
disciplines have within the university curricula of particular periods, and also to show what the cited professors taught in addition to the Old Slavonic language
and comparative Slavonic grammar. In this way a clearer picture is obtained
of the circles to which the Old Slavonic language is of central interest, being incorporated into Slavonic as well as Indo-European linguistics
