Avguštin Stegenšek, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Avguštin Stegenšek

philosopher

Date of Birth: 07-Jul-1875

Place of Birth: Tevče, Laško, Slovenia

Date of Death: 16-Mar-1920

Profession: Catholic priest, theologian, art historian, philosopher

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Avguštin Stegenšek Ph.
D.
(7 July 1875 in Tevce, Laško – 16 March 1920) was a Slovene theologian, philosopher and art historian. After his graduation of theology, he left for Rome to study archaeology and art history.
Later, he was awarded a doctor's degree of philosophy sciences at the university of Graz in 1906.
He took part in the Historic Society for Slovene Styria, founded 1906, and was appointed honorary conservator in Styria by Committee for the protection of monuments in Vienna.
Stegenšek was the pioneer of the monumental topography on the territory of Slovenia.
He framed the monumental work »Cerkveni spomeniki lavantinske škofije« (Church Monuments of Lavantine Diocese), which included two issues »Dekanija Gornji Grad« (Deanery Gornji Grad) and Konjiška Dekanija (Deanery Slovenske Konjice) got up by his own photographs and drawings as well edited and published on his own.Stegenšek died in Maribor in 1920.