On the Occasion of One Hundred Years Since the Rudiments of the Slovene Scientific Historiography

Abstract

On the occasion of one hundred years since the rudiments of the Slovene scientific historiography, which has been developing uninterruptedly since 1880, the author at first gives a characterization of the historiographic work and the rudiments of its being organized in the 19th century untill the break between the dilletantism and science. Further the author quotes the main historiographers, initiators of the break, and analyses the principal characteristics of their activity (concerning the expert orientation towards the critical analysis of the sources and their publicity, the assertion of the Slovene historical conception and of the Slovene language by the treatment of the Slovene history and place, as well as the transition as to the contsnts of their scientific interests from the political to the cultural, economic and social history, and to the problems of every day life of the population in the towns and especially in the country).