The policy of the Imperial authorities and nationalism in education in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy
The object of study in the article is educational policy of the Imperial authorities in Austria-Hungary at the turn of 19<sup>th</sup> - 20<sup>th</sup> centuries and a struggle of the Slavic intellectuals for the opening National Universities in Brno, Trieste, Ljubljana, Lviv. The study is based on press, publicism, and archive materials. The formation of national education as an important aspect of the independence struggle is in the focus of the article study.