The Last Will of Tadija Smičiklas (1913)

Predsjednik Jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti Tadija Smičiklas napisao je oporuku u Zagrebu 14. III. 1913., a javno je proglašena 8. VI. 1914., na dan Smičiklasova preminuća. Dokument je važan zbog značenja oporučiteljeva života i djela te zbog svoga sadržaja.Tadija Smičiklas, president of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb (from 1900 till his death in 1914), rector of the University, president of Matica hrvatska and the first doctor honoris causa of the Faculty of Arts in Zagreb, one of the most prominent Croatian historians, made his will on 14 March 1913. The will is extant in the authorised transcript of the notary, who made it public in Zagreb on the very day when Smičiklas died (8 June 1914). The document is kept in the collection of Smičiklas’s hand-written papers in the Academy Archive in Zagreb, of which archive Smičiklas was the director from 1896 till his death. In this article, after the introduction, the author publishes this document, important for a better understanding of life and work of this prominent personality