Croatian-American boxer FRITZIE ZIVIC
and NIKOLA TESLA
In
1941
Nikola Tesla,
distinugished Croatian-American inventor, invited
Fritzie Zivic to the
lunch in New York,
as well as his brothers, after one of his successful defences of the
title of the welter-weight world champion.
Source
newsinteractive.post-gazette.com.
From left to right: Joe Zivic, Fritzie Zivic, Nikola Tesla, Jack Zivic,
Pete Zivic i Eddie Zivic.
Their father Josip Živčić was born in Bosiljevo in Croatia.
Speech of Dr. Slobodan Lang
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Otvaranje izložbe
Ranjeni Krist dr. Slobodana Langa i g. Ivana Matkovića - Laste dne 10. veljače 2002. u Vinkovcima.
Dr.
Slobodan Lang (left) on the Danube river in Croatia. Photo by the courtesy of dr. Slobodan Lang.
Croatian Dream Team in Udbina 2015
Young Croatian family in beautiful national costumes, heading to the
Church of Croatian Martyrs in Udbina, 2015.
The older boy is wearing a typical Lika cap.
This proud family is from the region of
Zavalje
in
Bosnia and Herzgovina,
near the town of Bihać.
Zavalje is a part of the Lika-Senj bishopric in Croatia.
Udbina in
Lika, with its
Church of Croatian
Martyrs, above the legendary Krbava Field.
As
we can see, Zavalje is in the region where the border between Croatia
and B&H makes an unnatural rectangular twist at the expense of
Croatia.
This twist is a result of communist manipulations in ex-Yugoslavia
immediately after 1945.
Near the left upper corner of the map are the famous
Plitvice
Lakes. For more detials see the
Google Maps.
For c omparison we provide von Zuccheri's map from 1848, corresponding
to roughly the same area, with indicated the then border:
Edmund von Zuccheri: Carte Generale des Postes du Royaume de
Hongrie y compris Transylvanie, L'Esclavonie, La Croatie avec une
partie des provinces de Galice, Moravie, Autrice, Illyrie. etc. Reduite
d'apres la grande cart de Lipszky par E. de Zuccheri. . . . 1848.
Source
gallica.bnf.fr.
St Paul the Apostle spent three
months
on the
island of Mljet in Croatia
Saint Paul had shipwreck
on Croatian island of Mljet, and not on Malta. This is the subject of
the monumental book written in elite Latin language by Ignjat Đurđević,
published in Venice in 1730. Ignjat Đurđevic was Croatian Baroque
writer from the city of
Dubrovnik.
The island of Mljet is not far from
Dubrovnik.
Until recently it was
believed that the first person to identify the location of Saint Paul's
shipwreck near Mljet was the father of European historigraphy, the
Greek emperor and historian Constanine Porphyrogenitus (905-959) who,
describing the south Dalmatian islands in his work "On Administering
the Empire", wrote the following:
Another big island is
Mljet. It was described by Saint Luke in the Acts where he calls it
Melita. Saint Paul was there bitten by the viper but he shook it off
into the fire where it was burned.
However, scholars have
recently discovered new information in The Geography of distinguished
Armenian scholar Ananias of Shirak, written between 592-636 AD, which
confirms that Saint
Paul stayed in Dalmatia following a shipwreck that happened on the
Adriatic island of Melita (Mljet).
The bendictine Abbey of Sv. Marija (St Mary) on an islet on Veliko
jezero (Great Lake) near the island
of Mljet. Photo by Nikola Piasevoli.
After Porphyrogenitus,
the 16th century Italian historian of Dubrovnik (Ragusa) Serafino
Razzi, Dominican and for a while Vicar of Capitular of the Ragusan
Metropolitan see, claimed the same. He set forth the following:
At the end of this
presentation on the island of Mljet, I shall tell you that many serious
writers think that this Ragusan Mljet was the very island where Saint
Paul the Apostle escaped after the shipwreck and there he was bitten by
a viper as written in chapter 28 of the Acts. One of them is the
honorable cardinal Gaetano.
Razzi thought that the
shipwreck couldn not have taken place in Malta because Malta was
situated in the African, instead of in the Adriatic Sea.
Đurđević claimed at the
beginning of his book the following
I say and I claim that
before the chivalrous Hospitaller Order of St John moved to African
Melita, the glory of Saint Paul's shipwreck site had been granted,
without any hesitation or doubt, to Illyrian Melita.
It is interesting that
while Malta was under the Spanish government, Đurđević was supported in
his views by both English and French scholars. However, when Malta came
under the English protectorate, the circumstances changed and the
English writers stood up for the Maltese option. Something similar
happened to the French writers when Malta was conquered by Napolen
Bonaparte.
The following important scholarly book dealing with the shipwreck of St
Paul on the Adriatic island of Mljet has been published in 2015:
Zlatko Pavetić (ed): The Journey of
Paul the Apostle to Rome led over the Croatian Island of Mljet (Melita)
/ Put apostola Pavla za Rim vodio je preko hrvatskog otoka Mljeta (Melite),
Proceedings of the academic conference held on Mljet (Melita) 15
October 2011 / Zbornik radova znanstvenog skupa odr\anog na Mljetu
(Meliti) 15. listopada 2011., Zagreb, 2015., ISBN 978-953-58133-0-9,
356 pp, in English and Croatian, hard cover, with color photos and maps
Selected articles from the
Proceedings:
The spine of the book represents
the Mljet viper. It is probably the unique such book in the world.
Nikola Tesla distinugished Croatian-American scientist and inventor
and his high-school education in Croatia
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) in his laboratory in Colorad Springs
in 1899,
with the book
Ruđer
Bošković, a famous
Croatian scientist.
Martin Sekulić (1833-1905), professor of mathematics and Physics in
Rakovica (Karlovca),
in Croatia, in the High Real School which Nikola Tesla attended in the
years 1870-1873.
Sekulić is probably the most important professor during entire
schooling of
Nikola Tesla.
His experiments enthused young Tesla for electricity and magnetism.
He was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Zagreb (in the division
of Natural Sciences and Mathematics).
The working language in
the High Real School (Obere Realschule) in
Rakovica was German.
Rakovica was then a part of the Croatian Miliatry Frontier,
i.e., (according to the then terminology) of Kroatischen
Milit舐-Grenze, or Hrvatska
krajina,
or Hrvatska Vojna
krajina.
Later, the name of Hrvatsko-slavonska Vojna krajina was also used.
Some of the subjects that young Nikola Tesla listened to as a student
of the VI'th grade of the (roughly, age of 16).
The source is
school yearbook
of the Rakovac
High Real School for the period of
1872-1874.
Kroatische Sprache - Croatian
language
Mathematics
Physics
These subjects had been described not only in German, but in Croatian
langauge as well:
Here we stress that the Croatian Language was the mother tongue of
Nikola Tesla. This fact is missing
in literally all biographical sources (including monographs) dealing
with Nikola Tesla.
It is a well documented fact by available school yearbooks from the
period of 1870-1873.
We conclude with the (duplicate of) matriculation form that Nikola
Tesla earned in Rakovica in 1873:
The title page of the (duplicate of) Nikola Tesla's matriculation
form, issued in Croatia's capital Zagreb in 1885..
.
kept in
the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
