Ignacij Knoblehar

Ignaz Knoblecher, lithograph by Joseph Kriehuber , 1850

Ignacij Knoblehar , Germanized Ignaz Knoblecher (born July 6, 1819 in St. Kanzian , Lower Carniola , † April 13, 1858 in Naples ) was a Slovenian Catholic clergyman, missionary and explorer.

Life

Ignaz Knoblechner studied Catholic theology in Ljubljana and Rome and became a missionary in Africa. There he became known as Abuna Soliman. He became Apostolic Vicar General for Inner Africa and resided in Khartoum since 1848 . At the end of 1849 it penetrated 4,000 km on the White Nile to 4 ° 10 'north latitude. He published the results of this trip in part in the book "Journey on the White Nile", published in 1850, during a stay in Austria. Knoblehar donated the returned ethnographic collections partly to the city of Ljubljana and partly to the natural history cabinet in Vienna . In 1852 he founded the first mission station on the White Nile in Gondokoro near the Bari and two years later the station "Heiligenkreuz" (Angweyn) with the Dinka .

Publications

• Journey on the white river. From the original maniscripts of the Vicar General of Central-Africa Ignaz Knoblecher , edited by Vinzenz Ferrerius Klun . Laibach, 1850.
  • New edition Journey on the White Nile. With an introduction by Michael H. Zach (= collection of old Africa travelogues by Austrian explorers. Vol. 4). Kainbacher, Baden near Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-9501302-4-1 .

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Knoblecher, Ignaz . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 12th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1864, pp. 154–158 ( digitized version ).
• Franz Stanonik :  Knoblecher, Ignaz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, pp. 308-313.
• Knoblehar, Ignacij. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1965, p. 442 f. (Direct links on p. 442 , p. 443 ).
• Ivanka Tadina: Ignacij Knoblehar: 1819–1858, veliki pionir krščanske civilizacije in odličen apostol črnih (= Acta ecclesiastica Sloveniae 13). Ljubljana: Univ., Teološka Fak., 1991.
• Johannes Madey :  Knoblecher, Ignaz. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 143-144.
• Dietmar Henze: Knoblecher, Ignaz . In: Encyclopedia of the explorers and explorers of the earth . Volume 3. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-23889-7 (previously: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1993), p. 45 f.
• Peter Rohrbacher: Logwit-lo-Ladú (1848–1866): His importance as an African author in the early phase of Austrian African studies in: Michel Espagne, Pascale Rabault, David Simo (eds.): African studies in Germany and German African studies - a mirror image . Würzburg 2014, pp. 49–72.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ignacij Knoblehar in the catalog of the German National Library