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ŠUMARSKI LIST 3-4/1986 str. 45     <-- 45 -->        PDF

125 Years of Forestry Education and Scientific Work in Croatia


Summary


At the end of 1860 the Forestry-Management School was opened in the town
of Križevci. It was the first school for the education of agricultural and forestry
experts not only in Croatia but on the Balkans. This volume of Šumarski list
commemorates the anniversary of Zagreb, on the 17th and 18th December 1985
in Zagreb.


The first part of the anniversary celebration was a formal academy which
took place in the Croatian National Theatre and the second part consisted of a
Symposium held at the Faculty of Forestry in Zagreb. At the formal academy
Prof. Boris Ljuljka, Dean of the Forestry, gave a historic review on forestry education
and scientific work during the past 125 years, which can be found in this
volume of the Šumarski list. Papers on forestry read at the symposium will be
published in the »Glasnik za šumske pokuse«, while those dealing with wood conversion
have already been published in the »Bilten Zavoda za istraživanja u drvnoj
industriji«, Volume 6/1985.


The Forestry-Management School in Križevci began work in 1860, although
the national spirit was recorded 17 years previously. Namely, the forester, Franjo
Sporer, in the Gospodarski list of 1843, suggested founding a Croatian-Slavonian
Peoples´ Institute of Forestry, with the task of implementing rational management
of forests and training of foresters, hunters and land surveyors. At that time and
until 1877, conditions for enrollment in the Križevci school was a minimum of
three years´ schooling and at least two years of work in the profession. Schooling
lasted for two years. With the legislation in 1877 conditions for enrollment were
lour forms ot grammar school, and the training was exteided to three years. The
third phase occurred in 1898 when the Križevci school for foresters was changed
into a Forestry Academy within the jurisdiction of Zagreb University, with a
three-year training with previous completion of eight forms of grammar school
education, the Forestry Academy existed until 1919, when the Agricultural and
Forestry Faculty was founded within the University of Zagreb. After 40 years, in


1960, the combined Agricultural and Forestry Faculty was replaced by separate


I acuities for each branch. Accordingly, in 1985, the Faculty of Forestry marked 25


years of independant existence. Today, there are two fields of specialization;


lorestry (siivicultural) and industrial conversion of wood.


Paralleliy with the development of the training, Scientific-research work has
developed, especially since 1919. Namely, in 1925, scientific-research work at the
faculty was united into the Institute for Forestry Experiments, which publishes
already mentioned »Glasnik za šumske pokuse«. Due to the bifurcation of teaching
the need appeared for relevant buildings for scientific work, and in 1967 the
Institute for Research in Forestry and the Institute for Research in the Timbeir
Industry were founded. Besides these two institutes, the Forestry Institute in Jastrebarsko
and the Institute for Timber in Zagreb are today in operation.


NOTE: Graph on page 102/1 presents the number of graduates for each period
of development of the Faculty, and the Graph on page 102 2 illustrates the
ratio of graduate engineers in forestry and the woood industry. (The latter are in
the minority).


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