19 Facts About Mihajlo Rostohar

Mihajlo Rostohar was a Slovenian psychologist, author and educator, who played an important role during the creation of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs.

Mihajlo Rostohar was born in a peasant family in Brege near Krsko, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Duchy of Carniola and baptized Michael Rostohar.

Mihajlo Rostohar attended high school in Ljubljana and Kranj.

Mihajlo Rostohar studied philosophy at the University of Graz with Alexius Meinong and later in Vienna, where he graduated in 1905.

Mihajlo Rostohar continued his studies in Prague, Leipzig, Halle and Berlin.

Mihajlo Rostohar obtained his habilitation at the Charles University of Prague.

Mihajlo Rostohar was close to progressive ideas, but unlike many other Slovene followers of Masaryk, he did not join the Social democratic party, but moved closer to national liberal positions.

Mihajlo Rostohar climbed to the balcony, where leaders of the rally spoke to the gathered people, and shouted:.

Mihajlo Rostohar used them to surround the barracks in Kodeljevo and disarm a battalion of the Austro-Hungarian army from Hungary on the same night.

Therefore, Mihajlo Rostohar organized Slovenian officers to prepare flyers printed in different languages to invite soldiers under command of Svetozar Borojevic to go peacefully home, and not to start conflicts.

Mihajlo Rostohar followed the ideas of the Leipzig school.

Mihajlo Rostohar is described as Piaget before Piaget, Chomsky before Chomsky, Atkinson before Atkinson, and much more.

Mihajlo Rostohar participated in the Brno's Society for Research in Child; he became its chairman in 1926.

Mihajlo Rostohar was the main organizer of the pedological congresses where members of the Psychological Institute could present their Gestalt-oriented studies.

In 1937, Mihajlo Rostohar presented his research on a child's creative fantasy and its relationship to the apperception of new images.

From 1948, Mihajlo Rostohar taught at the University of Ljubljana where he was head and thought until his death.

Mihajlo Rostohar was author of many works published in Czech, German, French, Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian.

Mihajlo Rostohar used his professional education to analyze the moral meaning of nation.

Mihajlo Rostohar believed that the core of nationality is the awareness of belonging and the feeling that such awareness generates.