Frane Bulić, Josip Brunšmid i Viktor Hoffiller were active during a period known for various scientific advances. During the 19th century the theoretical and methodological frameworks for different scientific fields began to form, including the fields in which the three aforemen-tioned scientists were active - history and archaeology. They finished their higher education at the Vienna School of Archaeology, one of the foremost centres for the education of young researchers at the time, which placed them in the centre of events in the Austrian scientific community. During this stage of their education, they were able to follow the research of leading scientists in the fields of archaeology, history, art history and philology (e.g. Alexan-der Conze, Otto Hirschfeld, Otto Benndorf, Moriz Hoernes, etc.) and were able to familiarise themselves with different theories and methodologies proposed by the those scientists. This thesis will first give an overview of the processes, concepts and people deemed as most influential for the formation of the scientific fields of history and archaeology during the 19th and 20th century, with a pronounced focus on the scientific community of Germany and Austria. The second part of the thesis will focus on how the previously presented processes affected the work of Bulić, Brunšmid and Hoffiller, their theoretical and methodological framework, and how it helped them transfer the framework into the Croatian scientific community.