Summary: The first hunting society in Croatia was founded in 1881. However, it was the establishment of the new First General Croatian Hunting and Fishing Society (1891) that gave an impetus to the flourishing of hunting. This society was responsible for the first display of hunting exhibits at the Agricultural-Forestry Exhibition in Zagreb (1891), the edition of the first hunting magazine Viestnik, the first general Croatian hunting and fishing society (1892), the passing of the Hunting Act (1893), the publication of Kesterčanek’s Hunting (1896), the participation at a large Millennium Exhibition of the Hungarian Monarchy in Budapest (1896), the publication of Ettinger’s Hunters (1897) and the Forestry-Hunting Lexicon (1898). At the mentioned exhibition in Budapest, Croatia presented its history, literature, agriculture and cattle breeding, industry, communications, ethnography, forestry and hunting. Croatia was represented by slightly fewer than 10,000 exhibitors, of which 105 displayed several hundred hunting exhibits (stuffed game, antlers, various hunting rifles and pistols, old-fashioned gunpowder-filled horns, game traps and hunting devices). On the occasion of the exhibition, a book was published in Zagreb containing data on all the exhibitors and exhibits. Daily papers in Croatia and specialised magazines in Austria and Germany reported on the exhibition.
Key words: Budapest; Croatian participation; reviews of the exhibition; the hunting share of the exhibition; the Millennium Exhibition of the Hungarian Monarchy 1896 |
