Avguštin Stegenšek
Avguštin Stegenšek (born July 7, 1875 in Tüffer , Lower Styria , today Slovenia ; † March 21, 1920 in Maribor ) was a Roman Catholic clergyman and art historian .
Life
He attended high school in Celje and Maribor and then the seminary in Maribor. In 1898 he was ordained a priest. From 1899 to 1902 he went to the Campo Santo Teutonico in Rome to study Christian art history . After his return he worked at the boys' seminary and the seminary in Maribor.
At the Faculty of Arts, University of Graz , he was in 1906 when Josef Strzygowski to Dr. phil. PhD. In 1908 he was appointed honorary conservator for four districts in Lower Styria by the Central Commission for Monument Preservation in Vienna .
Stegenšek is the pioneer in monument science in the Slovenian region. He founded the monumental work Cerkveni spomeniki lavantinske škofije ( The Church Monuments of the Lavantine Diocese ), which he illustrated with his own photographs and drawings and also published and edited it.
Fonts (selection)
- Studies of ecclesiastical wall painting in Rome and the surrounding area from the 5th to the 13th centuries. Century Dissertation, University of Graz 1905 (manuscript, digitized version ).
- Dekanija Gornjegrajska (Deanery Oberburg ). Maribor 1905, catalog entry at Cobiss.
- Konjiška dekanija (Dean's Office Gonobitz ). Maribor 1909, catalog entry at Cobiss.
literature
- Rajko Bratož: Avguštin Stegenšek . In: Stefan Heid, Martin Dennert (Hrsg.): Personal Lexicon for Christian Archeology . Researchers and personalities from the 16th to the 21st century. Volume 2. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2620-0 , pp. 1187–1188.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stegenšek, Avguštin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stegensek, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman Catholic clergyman and art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tüffer , Lower Styria , today Slovenia |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 1920 |
| Place of death | Maribor |