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Aemilian Schöpfer's image of old age, from the biography of Anton Klotz 1936

Aemilian Alois Ignaz Schöpfer (born April 29, 1858 in Brixen ; † March 24, 1936 in Innsbruck ) was a Catholic priest , a conservative-minded politician and publicist, co-founder and chairman of the Christian Social Party in Tyrol , provisional governor of Tyrol 1916/17 and founder of the well-known Tyrolia Verlag Innsbruck, Vienna and Munich, from which today's Athesia- Verlag emerged in South Tyrol .

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Schöpfers ancestors were millers and farmers near Terenten , his father was a small tax clerk in Feldkirch and Brixen , where Aemilian was born as the fifth of ten children. When he was an orphan at an early age, the rain from the Brixen Kassianum took care of the talented boy. After graduation in 1875, he was accepted into the Brixen seminary . He was sponsored by the two future diocesan bishops, Regens Simon Aichner and Prefect Franz Egger . From October 1879 he attended the Frintaneum in Vienna, was ordained a priest with papal dispensation on September 18, 1880 before reaching the canonically prescribed age and completed his studies with a doctorate to become a Dr. theol. on February 9, 1883. First he was then court chaplain in Brixen, then at his own request a year-long pastoral activity in Virgen followed ; As a cooperator in Virgen, he became professor for Old Testament exegesis and oriental languages ​​at the Brixen seminar in 1887.

Schöpfer was a very political person whose special interest was in social policy, whereby he also stood up for universal suffrage and split off from the Catholic People's Party with some other Tyrolean Catholics in 1898 , which led to the "brotherly dispute" among Tyrolean Catholics, which continued until 1907 should last. Together with Josef Schraffl he founded the Christian Social Party in Tyrol, of which he was the first chairman . Schöpfer was not without controversy in church circles, since he rejected the political authority of the regional bishops (Brixen, Trient, Salzburg) and only granted them religious authority. In 1907 he founded the »Tyrolia« publishing company, which he headed as president until his death. In the same year a branch was established in Innsbruck. After the separation of South Tyrol in 1919, the South Tyrolean part of the publishing house was continued as "Athesia". Schöpfer was responsible for the appearance of several newspapers, including the Brixner Chronik, the Tiroler Volksbote and the Tiroler Anzeiger . In 1914 he was appointed papal house prelate. From 1896 to 1923 Schöpfer was a member of the Tyrolean Landtag (from 1908 to 1918 also of the Provincial Committee) and from 1897 to 1927 of the Austrian Imperial and National Council. As provisional governor (from October 1916 to May 1917), Schöpfer spoke the Tyrolean oath of loyalty before Charles I. Although he was a loyal follower of the Habsburgs, after the collapse of the empire, Schöpfer advocated an independent Tyrol through which he believed he could save the unity of the country.

The creator was an honorary member of the Catholic student association AV Raeto-Bavaria Innsbruck .

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  1. ↑ Josef Stifter: Dr. Aemilian Schöpfer and the brotherly dispute in Tyrol , Diss. Univ. Vienna 1949
  2. ^ John W. Boyer: Karl Lueger (1844-1910). Christian Social Policy as a Profession , German by Otmar Binder, Böhlau, Vienna 2010, pp. 271ff., 287, 525.
personal data
SURNAME Creator, Aemilian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Creator, Aemilian Alois Ignaz; Creator, Ämilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Catholic clergyman and politician, member of the state parliament, member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Brixen
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1936
Place of death innsbruck