Claim: Matija Mesić was a student of multiple areas of study, was a part of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, and warned others about the importance of modern university.
Evidence: Matija Mesić (Brod na Savi, February 19, 1826 – Zagreb, December 5, 1878) was a Croatian historian, university professor, the first rector of the University of Zagreb. He graduated philosophy at the Royal Academy of Science in 1844, and theology at the Vienna Pázmáneum in 1848. In the period 1851–1853 he studied history and geography in Vienna and Prague. He received a professorship at the Law Academy in Zagreb in 1854, working as a director of the same institution since 1871. He was a full member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts since 1867. In the opening ceremony, on the October 19th 1874, he held his famous speech in which he warned on the importance of modern university.