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The institution was founded in Zagreb (then mostly known as Agram, in German) in 1867 as the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts. The bishop and benefactor Josip Juraj Strossmayer , a prominent advocate of higher education during the 19th century Croatian national romanticism, set up a trust fund for this purpose and in 1860 submitted a large donation to the then ban (viceroy) of Croatia Josip Šokcevic for the cause of being able to "converge all better minds ... to decide how to create a people's book in the Slavic south as soon as possible, and how it could encompass all branches of human science".
After some years of deliberations by the Croatian Parliament and the Emperor Franz Joseph, it was finally sanctioned by lawThis article is about law in society. For other possible meanings, see law (disambiguation). Law (a loanword from Danish-Norwegian lov , in politics and jurisprudence, is a set of rules of conduct which mandate or proscribe (or both) specified relationshi in 18661866 is a common year starting on Monday. Events January 6 Ottoman troops clash with men of a Maronite leader Karam in St. Doumit in Lebanon Turks are defeated January 12 Royal Aeronautical Society is formed ( London) January 28 800 Maronite troops clash. The official sponsor was Josip Juraj Strossmayer, while the first PresidentPresident is a title held by many leaders of organizations, companies, universities, and countries. Etymologically, a "president" is one who presides, who sits in leadership (from Latin prae "before" + sedere "to sit"). Originally, the term usually referr of the Academy was the distinguished Croatian historianGenerally speaking, a historian is a person who studies history. This is harder than many think; the study of history requires careful attention to detail and neutrality. Historians can often have a profound impact upon the way people think. For example, Franjo Racki . Its creation was the logical extension of the University of ZagrebThe University of Zagreb ( Croatian SveuciliSte u Zagrebu is the oldest Croatian university in continuous operation and also the oldest university in southeastern Europe. The university was officially founded September 23 1669 by Emperor and King Leopold, the institution initially created in 1669Events Samuel Pepys stopped writing his diary. The Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb destroys several Hindu temples and banned the whole religion, so Hindus rebel. Antonio Stradivari makes his first violin Famine in Bengal kills 3 million people The Hanseatic Leagu and also renewed by bishop Strossmayer in 1874.
The decorated facade of the Academy Palace, ZrinskiSee Nikola Zrinski for the great grandson. Nikola Subic Zrinski or Miklos Zrinyi ( 1508- 1566), Croatian and Hungarian hero, member of the Zrinski noble family. Nikola was the son of Nikola Zrinski and Ilona Karlovic. He distinguished himself at the siege square in Zagreb
Bishop Strossmayer also initiated the building of the Academy Palace in the Zrinjevac park of Zagreb, and the Palace was completed in 1880. In 1884, the Palace also became a host of the "Strossmayer Gallery" that contained 256 works of art (mostly paintings). The same is today one of the most prominent gallery in Zagreb.
The Academy published the scientific magazine Rad (rad=work in Croatian language) between 1867 and 1882, when each of the individual scientific classes of the Academy started printing their own magazines. A total of almost five hundred issues have been printed up to now. In 1887, the Academy published the first "Ljetopis" as a year book, as well as several other publications in history and ethnology.
The Academy was named "Yugoslav" until 1991 (except for a brief intermission in the time period between 1941 and 1945 during the Nazi regime of the Independent State of Croatia) when it was renamed to "Croatian".