Janez Bleiweis

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Janez Bleiweis
Janez vitez Bleiweis pl. Trsteniški
Austro-Hungarian
Occupation(s)journalist, doctor, veterinarian, writer, politician, teacher

Janez Bleiweis (19 November 1808 – 29 November 1881)

father of the nation.[3]

Bleiweis was born in a wealthy merchant family in the Carniolan city of Kranj,[1] then part of the Austrian Empire. Since childhood, he was raised in a bilingual environment. He was fluent in both Slovene and Austrian German, as most of the members of the upper middle class in Carniola at the time. He attended the lyceum in Ljubljana before enrolling at the University of Vienna, where he studied medicine. After completing his studies, he worked as a professor of veterinary medicine and pathology in Ljubljana. Bleiweis wrote a number of text from the fields of the veterinary medicine and human health, particularly about infectious diseases.

In 1843, Bleiweis founded the journal

Slovene national movement. Already in the late 1850s, however, his politically conservatitive leadership was challenged by the younger generation of Slovene nationalists, known as the Young Slovenes, among whom were Fran Levstik, Josip Stritar, and Josip Jurčič. Bleiweis' group, which included Lovro Toman, Etbin Henrik Costa, Luka Svetec and Andrej Einspieler was identified as the Old Slovenes
thereafter, although they themselves never accepted such a name.

Bleiweis was a

Austroslavist ideology. In politics, he followed the example of the Czech leader František Palacký, who demanded autonomy for the Slavic peoples within a unified Austrian Empire
.

In 1881, Bleiweis was granted

St. Christopher Cemetery in the Bežigrad
district of Ljubljana.

References

  1. ^ a b c Stefan Barbarič (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon] (in Serbo-Croatian). Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia): Matica srpska. p. 40.
  2. ^ "Janez Bleiweis | abart". cs.isabart.org. Retrieved 2021-10-08.
  3. ^ "Svarun in njegova Slovenija - 50 blogov - Kam.si".

Sources

  • Jože Pogačnik, "Janez Bleiweis" in Slovenska misel: eseji o slovenstvu (Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, 1987), 437-438

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