Andrej Einspieler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Andrej Einspieler

Austro-Hungarian politician and Catholic priest

Date of Birth: 13-Nov-1813

Place of Birth: Suetschach, Carinthia, Austria

Date of Death: 16-Jan-1888

Profession: politician, Catholic priest, journalist, opinion journalist

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Andrej Einspieler

  • Andrej Einspieler (13 November 1813 – 16 January 1888) was a Slovene politician, Roman Catholic priest and journalist, and one of the early leaders of the Old Slovene national movement in the 19th century.
  • He was known as the "father of the Carinthian Slovenes".Einspieler was born in the village of Suetschach (Slovene: Svece) near Feistritz im Rosental (Slovene: Bistrica v Rožu) in the Duchy of Carinthia.
  • He attended the lyceum and later the theological seminary in Klagenfurt.
  • He served as a priest throughout the Slovene-inhabited areas of southern Carinthia.
  • During the spring of nations of 1848, he collaborated with the fellow Carinthian Slovene priest and political activist Matija Majar and became a fervent advocate of the political program of United Slovenia.
  • In 1851, Einspieler co-founded the Hermagoras Society (Mohorjeva družba), the oldest Slovene publishing house, together with the Carinthian philologist Anton Janežic and the 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 beginning of the constitutional period in the Austrian Empire in 1860, Einspieler gradually abandoned the ideal of United Slovenia as unachieveble.
  • He wrote numerous articles in the German language, calling for a collaboration between Slovene and German speakers in Carinthia and in other regions of the Slovene Lands.
  • In 1865, he pushed through initiator the so-called Maribor Program, in which a group of Old Slovenes (a conservative fraction within the Slovene national movement) proposed the re-establishment of Inner Austria, a largely autonomous and federative political unit within the Austrian Empire into which the traditional provinces of Carinthia, Styria, Carniola, and Austrian Littoral would be merged.
  • He launched the journal Stimmen aus Innerösterreich ("News from Inner Austria"), written mainly in the German language, in order to convince the German-speaking public to accept this idea.
  • The program was however rejected by both Slovene and 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.

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