{"id":101475,"date":"2026-06-08T14:46:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nsk.hr\/?p=101475"},"modified":"2026-06-08T15:22:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:22:48","slug":"croaticas-hidden-sherlock-holmes-brought-to-light-at-2026-heritage-at-hand-at-croatrium-event-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsk.hr\/en\/news\/croaticas-hidden-sherlock-holmes-brought-to-light-at-2026-heritage-at-hand-at-croatrium-event-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Croatica\u2019s hidden Sherlock Holmes brought to light at 2026 \u201cHeritage at Hand at CroAtrium\u201d event #5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The fifth event of the 2026 edition of Heritage at Hand at CroAtrium<\/a><\/em>, the programme of the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) promoting Croatia\u2019s national library collection<\/a>, spotlighted the publications in which Sherlock Holmes\u2019s Croatian impostor hid for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her lecture, Professor at the Department of English Studies of the University of Rijeka\u2019s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences<\/a> Antonija Primorac presented the research as part of which she \u201ccaught\u201d the fraudulent hero and its findings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The double trace of Sherlock Holmes in Croatica<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Arthur Conan Doyle\u2019s Sherlock Holmes officially made his first appearance in Croatia\u2019s translational literature in 1894, on the pages of the first Croatian illustrated entertainment magazine (Dom i sviet). The biweekly then published the Croatian translation of Doyle\u2019s The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle<\/em><\/a>, stating the translator merely as \u201cA. R-\u0107\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thirteen years later his Croatian doppelg\u00e4nger furtively followed him in a series entitled \u201cDetective Sherlock Holmes and His World-famous Adventures\u201d (Detektiv Sherlock Holmes i njegovi znameniti do\u017eivljaji<\/a><\/em>), published in Zagreb<\/a>, Croatia\u2019s capital. Taken over from an earlier German edition (Detektiv Sherlock Holmes und seine weltber\u00fchmten Abenteuer<\/em>), the stories of his adventures published weekly with rather provocative colour frontpages by Alfred Rollof were highly popular with the readers, who were willing to pay for them as much as four times the price of the dailies of the time \/ four times more than for the dailies of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fake, but famed \u2013 even as \u201cScherlock\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the parallel publishing of the series\u2019 pastiches and new translations of Doyle\u2019s works, another indication of Sherlock Holmes\u2019s popularity in Croatian public sphere at the beginning of the 20th<\/sup> century is the then repertoire of the Croatian National Theatre. As well-liked and well-attended play \u2013 and that despite the critics\u2019 displeasure with it \u2013 the available sources state a comedy entitled \u201cScherlock Holmes\u201d<\/a>, whose title reveals a German pastiche\u2019s strong influence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, Sherlock\u2019s Croatian imitator has been documented as being used for political satire and social comments. Namely, the discovered Croatian pastiches served for mocking the political circumstances \/ conditions in Croatia in a 1908 issue of a Vinkovci newspaper<\/a>, while they themselves were explicitly mocked in a 1920 novel by the great Croatian writer Miroslav Krle\u017ea<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digitisation \u2013 a path to Croatica\u2019s accessibility and its preservation<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The event participants had the opportunity to see the selected copies of editions in which Professor Primorac discovered Sherlock Holmes\u2019s Croatian double and learn of the significant contribution that her research has made to their improved accessibility to the public. All the editions preserved at NSK have been digitised and made available as part of the Library\u2019s NSK Digital Collections<\/a> website, while the interesting details about their content and the circumstances surrounding their publication will be presented on the NSK Online Exhibitions<\/a> website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Systematically digitising Croatica since 2004, NSK had been dedicatedly building The Croatian Digital Library, which along with material digitised as part of Professor Primorac\u2019s research offers access to a wealth of additional digital content, ranging from digitised works of Croatian Glagolitic heritage<\/a> and Croatian incunabula<\/a> to born-digital heritage<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This huge and invaluable digital treasure trove may also be accessed via eCulture<\/a>, Croatia\u2019s national digital heritage platform, and its further development is indispensable \u2013 not only for ensuring of as wide as possible availability of centuries-old heritage preserved in NSK\u2019s collections<\/a> to all, but for its preservation as a physical collection for generations to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo: \u00a9 NSK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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