# Fran Novljan

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{{Short description|Croatian educator, andragogue, and Esperantist}}
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'''Franjo (Fran) Novljan''' (7 August 1879 – 12 January 1977) was a [Croatia](/source/Croatia)n educator, [andragogue](/source/andragogue), and [Esperantist](/source/Esperantist).<ref name=Šiklić>[http://istra.lzmk.hr/clanak.aspx?id=1917 Istarska enciklopedija] Josip Šiklić: ''Novljan, Fran'' (pristupljeno 23. ožujka 2020.)</ref>

==Biography==
Novljan was born in Novljani, [Boljunsko Polje](/source/Boljunsko_Polje), [Istria](/source/Istria) (now [Croatia](/source/Croatia), at the time [Austria-Hungary](/source/Austria-Hungary)). He went to classical grammar school in [Sušak](/source/Su%C5%A1ak%2C_Rijeka). There he founded the student society ''Nova nada''. He studied mathematics and physics in [Vienna](/source/Vienna). In 1901, during his studies, he founded with I. Ivančić the ''Istrian Committee of the Croatian Academic Society Zvonimir''. He was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army, and later became a teacher of mathematics and physics at Pazin Private Women's Teacher Training College<ref name=Šiklić/> and at the Croatian Gymnasium of Pazin.<ref>[https://www.gssjd.hr/skola/120-obljetnica/ Gimnazija i strukovna škola "Jurja Dobrile" u Pazinu] 120. obljetnica (pristupljeno 23. ožujka 2020.)</ref> On his initiative, a kind of public college was established in Pazin in 1907. He gave public lectures at the ''Narodni dom'', collaborated with the Academic Society "Istra", and worked in the Pazin Student Support Society. Returning from the army in 1918, he became involved in politics and diplomacy. participating in the establishment of the [National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs](/source/National_Council_of_Slovenes%2C_Croats_and_Serbs), of which he was a commissioner in [Zagreb](/source/Zagreb) and [Prague](/source/Prague). He was member of the delegation to the [Paris Peace Conference](/source/Paris_Peace_Conference_(1919%E2%80%931920)) in 1919. He was given the task by the National Council of organizing the reception and accommodation of [refugees from Istria](/source/Istrian_exodus_(1918-1943)). From 1920 he taught in Zagreb, then in [Bjelovar](/source/Bjelovar), then in [Nova Gradiška](/source/Nova_Gradi%C5%A1ka). In 1920 he became the editor of the Zagreb newspaper ''Radiša''. In 1934 he gave impetus to the activities of the People's University in Nova Gradiška. In the same year, he became the editor of [Novi Grad](/source/Novi_grad%2C_Osijek)'s ''Sadašnost''. In 1939 he became the principal of a grammar school in Zagreb. The [NDH](/source/NDH) sent him into retirement him in 1941.<ref name=Šiklić/>

He was a prominent member and commissioner of [Matica hrvatska](/source/Matica_hrvatska) for Istria.<ref name="Crljenko">[http://www.matica.hr/Vijenac/vijenac333.nsf/AllWebDocs/knji4g Matica hrvatska] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420061644/http://www.matica.hr/Vijenac/vijenac333.nsf/AllWebDocs/knji4g |date=2009-04-20 }} Branimir Crljenko: Kako je u prvoj regionalnoj Enciklopediji prešućena Matica hrvatska, Vijenac, Broj 333 - 335, 21. prosinca 2006.</ref>

Novljan was an active [Esperantist](/source/Esperantist). He was among the founders of the ''Prosvjetnoga saveza'' (Educational Alliance), of which he was first secretary. He organized Esperanto institutions in Zagreb. Novljan collaborated with Esperanto newspapers and magazines. He was the author of the Esperanto textbook ''Internacia lingvo esperanto i Esperanto en tridek lecionoj''.<ref name=Šiklić/>

Novljan had been collecting, writing and describing ethnographic material in and about the Boljun region since he was young. This effort resulted in the work ''Boljun, kmiečki život i už (a) nci''. He wrote the work ''Gospodarstvo, prosvjeta, politika'' with [Josip Predavec](/source/Josip_Predavec) and [Stjepan Radić](/source/Stjepan_Radi%C4%87), and published it in Zagreb in 1907.<ref name="Predavec">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zM0iMQAACAAJ |author=Josip Predavec |author2=Franjo Novljan |author3=Stjepan Radić |title=''Gospodarstvo, prosvjeta, politika: Josip Predavec, Franjo Novljan, Stjepan Radić'' |date=1907|publisher=Radic, Novljan |isbn=}}</ref>

He died in Zagreb.

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