Anton Hrodegh

Anton Hrodegh (born October 28, 1875 in Schiltingeramt near Langenlois , † June 18, 1926 in Gars am Kamp ) was a Catholic priest and in the last ten years of his life also a prehistoric .

Life

In his spare time, Anton Hrodegh studied with Oswald Menghin , who later became professor at the Prehistory Institute of the University of Vienna , majoring in Prehistory and received his doctorate on July 21, 1917. The foundations for his research and publication activities were mainly the collections of Candidus Ponz, Imperial Knight of Engelshofen ( Rosenburg ) and by Johann Krahuletz ( Eggenburg ). Hrodegh was one of the founders of the Kamptal Museum in the city of Langenlois , which also owes him numerous finds.

Through his active publication activity (around 30 specialist and local history articles), which was almost exclusively limited to the Waldviertel, and through numerous lectures, he achieved a high level of awareness at the time. As a curator of the Federal Monuments Office in Vienna, he was able to successfully educate the rural population in terms of monument conservation. He was the first to work scientifically on the Slavic settlement of the Waldviertel and in particular the Kamptal . He also knew how to enforce his results in relation to nationalist endeavors.

His main work is the "prehistory" of the Waldviertel , published a year before his death, which is still a cult book in local circles. Hrodegh is considered to be one of the founders of modern research on prehistory in Austria. Most of his research results on the Neolithic and the Early Middle Ages ( Slavs ) are still current.

Works

(Selection)

• Prehistoric archaisms in our modern hunter's Latin . Philos. Dissertation from the University of Vienna in 1916.
• Prehistoric settlement next to the Schimmelsprung ruins in Thunau near Gars am Kamp . Vienna Prehistoric Journal III, 1916, p. 24ff.
• The local mountain in Schiltern . Communications from the Anthropological Society XLVIII, 1918, p. 9ff.
• Primitive religious phenomena in the upper Schwarzatal . In: Zeitschrift für Österreichische Volkskunde 24, 1918, pp. 117ff.
• The prehistory of the Kamptal with special consideration of Gars and the surrounding area . In: Julius Kiennast: Chronicle of the market Gars in Lower Austria . Gars 1920, p. 5ff.
• The Koglberg (Freiberg) near Zöbing. A new prehistoric Kamptal station . Langenlois 1921.
• About the Neolithic idols of the Lower Austrian Manharts region . In: Mitteilungen der Anthropologische Gesellschaft LIII, 1923, pp. 197ff.
• Contribution to the prehistory and early history of the southern Waldviertel In: Austria's art treasures and ancient sites . Vienna no year
• Prehistory . E. Stepan publishing house, Vienna 1925 (= The Waldviertel , Vol. 2).

literature

• Hrodhegh Anton. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 439 f. (Direct links on p. 439 , p. 440 ).
• Leonhard Franz: Anton Hrodegh † (1926) . In: Wiener Prähistorische Zeitschrift 14 (1927), p. 61 ff.
• Franz Loidl: Mountain Pastor Dr. phil. Anton Hrodegh, well-known n.ö. Prehistoric . Vienna 1963 (contributions to the history of the Viennese diocesan)
• Hermann Maurer : The most important prehistoric researchers in the Waldviertel and their burial places . In: Das Waldviertel 24 (35), 1975, p. 17 ff.
• Hans Heppenheimer , "A great son from home ...". Commemoration for the 100th birthday of the prehistory researcher Dr. Hrodegh . In: Das Waldviertel 24, 1975, pp. 209ff.

Web links

• Literature by and about Anton Hrodegh in the catalog of the German National Library