Franjevci vode senjsku gimnaziju na prijelzu iz 18. u 19. stoljeće
Franciscans lead Senj Grammar School at the turn of 18th to 19th century

Summary/Abstract: The six-year grammar school in Senj was founded in 1725 by Emperor and King Charles VI upon the prompt of the Senj-Modruš Bishop Nikola Pohmajević. It was entrusted to Paulines, however in 1786 they handed it over to the Franciscans established in 1783 in the Croatian-littoral region. The Franciscans had to follow the state curriculum ‘Ratio educationis’ from 1777. It signifies the break with the Jesuit grammar school programme in the Habsburg Monarchy. Senj’s Franciscans were able to accept it by 1786 and carry it out until 1788. At that time they left the monastery because at the end of 1787 soldiers were housed in the monastery. From 1791 until 1800they again led the grammar school, however according to a new educational programme in the Hungarian part of the Habsburg Monarchy ‘Educatio nationalis’ (1793) which adopted the attitudes of Enlightenment and sought education in the German language. Since the Senj-Modruš Bishop Ivan Krstitelj Ježić (1789-1833) in 1802 asked the Franciscans to leave their monastery so he could open a seminary and high theological school inside it, they left Senj in 1807. Their effort to keep their monastery perhaps did not obstruct the work of the grammar school from 1800 to 1807, where from 1806 they needed to follow another curriculum ‘Ratio education is’ which sought education in the Latin and Hungarian languages. In Senj it was not carried out, as the German language continued to be learnt.

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