Anton Šantel

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Anton Šantel (born January 13, 1845 in Leutschach , Austrian Empire , † April 28, 1920 in Krško , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) was an Austrian - Yugoslav teacher , stenographer , translator and author .

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Santel was the son of a Keuschlerfamilie in Pößnitz in Leutschach to the world. Here he attended elementary school . He graduated from high school in Maribor with distinction. After graduating from high school , Šantel went to Graz in 1865 , where he studied mathematics and physics. In 1873, Šantel married the painter and judge's daughter from Stainz, Augusta von Aigentler, who later became the sister-in-law of Ludwig Boltzmann .

In 1872 he became a high school teacher in Gorizia / Gorica / Görz, where he taught physics, mathematics, philosophical pedagogy and, from 1889, also shorthand. In addition to his work as a high school teacher, he was a stenographer in the Görzer Landtag, where he also documented speeches made in Slovenian. For this he developed a Slovenian shorthand that made him one of the pioneers of Slovenian shorthand. He became a close friend of Anton Bezenšek, who later went down in history as the father of Slovenian shorthand and was to spread the shorthand among the other South Slavic peoples . Šantel was also active as chairman of the Slovenian reading club Goriška čitalnica , where he also appeared as a singer and musician . For this he translated songs, ballads and singspiele from German into Slovenian . In 1901 he became a member of the K. k. Examination committee for elementary and community schools in Gorizia. In 1906 he was appointed school councilor. In 1907 Šantel retired, but continued to teach as an external teacher at the private girls' school Notre Dame in Gorizia. During the First World War he and his family had to flee from Gorizia to Krško, where he spent the last years of his life.

In his retirement, Šantel described the simple living conditions in his hometown Leutschach as well as the school and social life in Maribor and Lower Styria in the middle of the 19th century and showed that at this time the German national consciousness was only weak and national Differentiation started slowly.

literature

  • Anton Šantel: Bilingual without limits . The memories of the Keuschler's son Anton Šantel (1845-1920) of his childhood in Leutschach and his youth in Marburg. Edited and annotated by Klaus-Jürgen Hermanik and Christian Promitzer, German translation by Andrea Haberl-Zemljič, Leykam, Graz 2002.
  • Anton Šantel: Zgodbe moje pokrajine. [z lastnimi risbami]. Pričevanja / Nova revija, Ljubljana 2006.
  • Dieter Flamm (ed.): Dear Professor. Dearly beloved Louis. Ludwig Boltzmann, Henriette von Aigentler. Correspondence. (Contributions to the history of science and science research). Böhlau, Vienna 1998, ISBN 978-3-20598-266-1 .
  • Alfonz Gspan (et al.): Slovenski biografski leksikon: 11. zv. Stelè - Švikaršič. Ljubljana, Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti (SAZU) 1971, ISBN 8-67131-047-7 .

Web links

  • Vilko Novak: Šantel, Anton (1845–1920). In: Slovenska biografija. Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti. Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual report of the private girls 'school of the poor school sisters de Notre Dame in Gorizia 1913, self-published by the girls' school, 20.
  2. ↑ Promitzer / Hermanik, in: Šantel, Anton, Grenzenlos bilingual. The memories of the Keuschler's son Anton Šantel (1845–1920) of his childhood in Leutschach and his youth in Marburg. Edited and annotated by Klaus-Jürgen Hermanik and Christian Promitzer, Graz: Leykam 2002, 8.
personal data
SURNAME Šantel, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Yugoslav teacher and translator
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Leutschach , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1920
Place of death Krško , Kingdom of Yugoslavia