Adalbert Depiny

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Adalbert Depiny (born August 30, 1883 in Budapest , † December 19, 1941 in Linz ) was an Austrian homeland researcher and Volkstumspfleger as well as a member of the state parliament .

Life

Depiny came from a Danube shipper family. His father, a port captain of DDSG in Budapest, died when his son was six years old. First he was raised by his uncle Franz Schimandl in Vienna and later in Linz. In Linz he attended the state grammar school , after passing his Matura he studied German , history, geography and classical philology in Vienna from 1902 . He received his doctorate in 1907. phil. and passed the teaching examination for middle schools in Latin, Greek and German. He then worked as a teacher in Budweis , Görz , Laibach and Linz .

When the head of the education office, Otto Glöckel , introduced “state consultants for public education” with a decree of July 30, 1919 , Wilhelm Gärtner from Ried and Depiny were appointed as such in 1920 . From 1924 Depiny completed this task alone. Gardeners and Depiny were significantly involved in the expansion of popular education and both were also important local researchers and folk curators. Depiny was often referred to as the "founder of scientific Upper Austrian folklore".

During this economically difficult time, the local researcher founded the regional and folkloric magazine Heimatgaue in 1919 , which was later continued in the Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter magazine started by Franz Pfeffer in 1947 . Folklore became more and more ideological in the interwar years and even more so during World War II, with Depiny, as a thorough and independent researcher, largely staying out of such disputes.

The legends research was part of his field of work, and so he brought out in 1932, the "Upper Austrian legends book". As a cultural advisor for the Austrofascist Fatherland Front , Depiny was a member of the state parliament from 1934 to 1938 for the area of ​​“cultural communities”. The popular education department he had set up was dissolved on March 14, 1938, and a large part of the research material was destroyed. Depiny, who at that time was a student councilor and councilor as well as a member of the state parliament, was temporarily detained because he did not agree with the new regime as head of the VF's cultural department.

Depiny had planned to write a comprehensive folklore of Upper Austria, but could no longer carry out his work because he died of a heart attack at the age of 58.

Works

  • Upper Austrian legend book. Linz 1932. 480 pages.
  • over a hundred articles in the Heimatgaue magazine he founded in 1919 .

Appreciation

In the Urfahr district of Linz , Depiny-Straße (near this river) has been named after him since 1968.

literature

  • Harry Slapnicka : Upper Austria - The political leadership. 1918 to 1938 (= contributions to the contemporary history of Upper Austria. 3). Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1976, ISBN 3-85214-163-X , p. 62 f.
  • Dietmar Assmann: Adalbert Depiny. Rethinking home care and popular education. In: Upper Austria. Life pictures on the history of Upper Austria. Volume 2. Oberösterreichischer Landesarchiv, Linz 1982, ISBN 3-900313-34-2 , pp. 171–178 (detailed biography).
  • Martha Khil: Adalbert Depiny. A picture of life. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. 1st year, Linz 1947, issue 1, pp. 2–14, website in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Khil 1947, p. 4.
  2. ↑ Khil 1947, p. 5.
  3. ↑ Depinystraße on stadtgeschichte.linz.at .
personal data
SURNAME Depiny, Adalbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian homeland researcher, folk curator and politician, member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1941
Place of death Linz