Andrej Einspieler
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Andrej Einspieler (13 November 1813 – 16 January 1888) was a
Old Slovene national movement in the 19th century. He was known as the "father of the Carinthian Slovenes".[1]
Einspieler was born in the village of Suetschach (
Styrian priest Anton Martin Slomšek. Due to Einspieler's restless cultural and publicist activity, Klagenfurt emerged as the major cultural center of the Slovene national revival
in the 1850s.
With the
ethnic German
nationalists. At the beginning of the 1870s, Einspieler was marginalized from the mainstream in Slovene politics, although he continued his political activity. In 1876, he was elected in the Klagenfurt municipal council.
He died in Klagenfurt in 1888.
Legacy
During all his active life, Einspieler fought for the linguistic and political rights of the Carinthian Slovenes. He became known as the "father of Carinthian Slovenes".
In 1979, the Slovene Christian Cultural Association from
Carinthia Einspieler Prize established the Einspieler Award, which is given to individuals who have rendered outstanding services to the cause of coexistence among different peoples or nationalities. The prize has been awarded to, among others, the governor of South Tyrol, Luis Durnwalder; scholar and professor at the Central European University, Anton Pelinka; Roman Catholic prelate, Egon Kapellari; and Austrian politician, Rudolf Kirchschläger
.
Sources
- Jože Pogačnik, "Andrej Einspieler" in Slovenska misel: eseji o slovenstvu (Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, 1987), 436–437.
- KSZ: Andrej Einspieler
- Kočna.at: Andrej Einspieler
References
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- ^ "Odlika koroške hvaležnosti". www.druzina.si. Archived from the original on 2015-09-23.
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