Julije Benešić
Julije is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Julije Bajamonti (1744–1800), medical historian, writer, translator, encyclopedist, historian, philosopher, and musician from the Croatian city of Split *Julije Kempf (1864–1934), Croatian historian and writer *Julije Knifer (1924–2004), Croatian painter and founding member of the prominent 60s Croatian art group known as ''Gorgona Group'' *Julije Makanec Julije Makanec (19 September 1904 – 7 June 1945) was a Croatian politician, teacher, philosopher and writer. During the World War II in Yugoslavia, he was the Minister of Education of the Independent State of Croatia and a high-ranking member of ...

Julije Bajamonti
Julije (Julio) Bajamonti (Italian: ''Giulio Bajamonti''; 4 August 1744 – 12 November 1800) was a medical historian, writer, translator, encyclopedist, historian, philosopher, and musician from the city of Split in present-day Croatia. His wife was Ljuba Bajamonti, a Split commoner. Bajamonti is known for composing the first preserved oratorio in Croatia (''La traslazione di San Doimo''), writing about the history of Split (unfinished and unpublished), and helping Alberto Fortis, with his journey around Dalmatia which also included the discovery of the now famous South Slavic Muslim song, Hasanaginica. After the fall of Venice in 1797 he urged that Dalmatia should be annexed to the Habsburg monarchy. In his speech in 1797 he stated that Austria was the successor of the old Venetian state. Like many other intellectuals along the Dalmatian coast Bajamonti wrote most of his works in Italian. Niccolò Tommaseo claims that there was no one in Italy who wrote better than Bajamont ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

Julije Kempf
Julije Kempf (25 January 1864 – 6 June 1934) was a Croatian historian and writer. Kempf was born in Požega, Slavonia. After graduating from Požega gymnasium, he attended teachers school in Zagreb. Afterwards, he worked in Novi Vinodolski as a teacher, before returning to Požega in 1885 to teach in Elementary school for boys. Soon he became well known for his efforts to make lessons more interesting for pupils, while adhering to scientific principles and didactic methods. Kempf supported founding of, and eventually presided over Požega valley teachers' association, finally becoming a member of Union of Croatian teachers' associations. Thanks to his reputation, Kempf became headmaster of the Elementary school for boys in Požega in 1902. In 1917, thanks to many of his professional achievements, Kempf was appointed Royal county school superintendent, a function he held until 1925. In 1925, Kempf became mayor of Požega, and he served his city in that way for four years. K ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

Julije Knifer
Julije Knifer (23 April 1924 – 7 December 2004) was a Croatian abstract painter and a founding member of the 1960s Croatian art collective known as the Gorgona Group. The central motif of Knifer's art is the exploration of meander, a geometric form which he had been creating since 1960 in various painting techniques such as print, oil, acrylic paint, collage and mural. An example of which is the colossal meander created by Knifer on a 20 x 30 m canvas in a quarry in Tübingen (1975). He was also one of the founding members of the Gorgona Group, whose members from 1959 to 1966 were: Miljenko Horvat, Ivan Kožarić, Marijan Jevšovar, Dimitrije Bašičević (who works under the name Mangelos), Matko Meštrović, Radoslav Putar, Đuro Seder and Josip Vaništa. In 1961 he participated at the first New Tendencies’ exhibition in Zagreb. He exhibited at many national and international shows including, The ''New Tendencies'' exhibitions (1961, 1963, 1969 and 1973), ''Art Abstrait Const ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]