Ignac Orožen

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Ignaz Orožen as Provost and with the Order of the Iron Crown III. Class (around 1893).

Ignac Orožen (Ignaz) (* 30th January 1819 in Tüffer ; † 11. April 1900 in Maribor ) was a Slovenian priest , historian and author , who make a significant contribution to the development of the Slovenian national consciousness and the Styrian history has done .

Life

Ignac Orožen was born as the legitimate son of the merchant Ignaz Orožen and his wife Maria, née Ramšak, in the Lower Styrian market town of Tüffer (today Laško in Slovenia ). Here he attended the local school, later the grammar school in Cilli (today Celje ) and then studied theology in the Klagenfurt seminary , where Anton Martin Slomšek also worked as a spiritual director at the time .

Orožen was ordained a priest on August 4, 1842 and served from September 28, 1842 to 1844 as a chaplain in the parish of St. Nicholas in the market town of Sachsenfeld (today Žalec ). From April 11, 1844 to September 29, 1847 he worked as the parish chaplain and then until September 21, 1854 as vicar in the abbey and parish of St. Daniel in Cilli.

Ignac Orožen began his pastoral ministry on September 24, 1854 as a pastor in the parish of St. Georg in the market town of Praßberg (today Mozirje ), at the entrance to the Upper Sanntal (Zgornja Savinja dolina). The parish had about 1850 members at the time and belonged to the dean's office in Oberburg (today Gornji Grad ). Orožen held his office in this parish for eleven years until he took over the Lower Styrian original parish Holy Cross near Rohitsch (today Rogatec ) as the main pastor on September 1, 1865 . He stayed here until September 23, 1867, when Orožen moved to Marburg (today Maribor ) and began his work as a consistorial councilor and canon at the prince-bishop's ordinariate of the Lavant diocese .

Also in 1867 he was appointed diocesan school supervisor. He gave up this office in 1869 when he was elected priest house director (1869–1879) and appointed director of the Lavanter seminary in Marburg (1869–1879). From 1871, Orožen also took on the position of vice-director of the theological school. As early as 1883 he was appointed director of the prince-bishop's office and one year later, in 1884, he was given the title: " Infuled cathedral dean ". Most recently, from 1893 until his death in 1900, Ignac Orožen was provost and headed the cathedral chapter of the diocese.

From 1881 to 1887 Ignac Orožen took an active part in the formulation and implementation of the teaching regulations as a member of the Styrian state school board. At the time when national fanaticism had also reached Lower Styria and language disputes and disputes over the language of instruction in schools dominated everyday life, he called for the introduction of the Slovene language of instruction in primary schools and Slovene parallel classes in high schools.

For that time, Orožen also went on extensive educational trips. The routes led him to Prague , Munich and the Rhineland , in Italy he visited Rome and Pompeii . In 1889 he traveled to the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo , on the occasion of the festive inauguration of the newly built Roman Catholic cathedral . In his historical research, Orožen roamed the former Cillier district several times, often in the Logar valley / Logarska dolina and the Sanntal Alps / Savinjske Alpe. His alleged ascent of the Ojstrica ( 2350  m. I. J. ) in 1855 is not verifiable.

From 1854 until his death, Ignac Orožen was a member of the Historical Association of Styria, he was also an employee of the Central Commission for Monument Protection in Vienna and gave numerous lectures on church art.

Honors

Works

Title page of the Celska Kronika from 1854
Ignaz Orožen, title page Volume VIII. The Bishopric and Diocese of Lavant (1893)

In 1854 Orožen's first publication, “ Celska Kronika ” appeared. This work, written in Slovenian , is still a chronicle in the original sense: a transcript of memorable events in Cilli, sorted by year, but mostly without explanations and comments and only partially with sources .

Orožen's main opus was the historical work written in German, but not completed: "The Diocese and the Diocese of Lavant". Between 1875 and 1893, Orožen published a description of a large area of ​​the Lavant diocese in eight volumes. In the preface to Volume 8 he writes: “ This means that 14 deaneries of the Lavant diocese have now been processed historically and all that is needed to complete this work is the same treatment of the 10 deaneries: Luttenberg, Großsonntag, Sauritsch, Pettau, St. Martin ob Windischgraz, Saldenhofen, Windischfeistriz, Gonobiz, St. Marein and Rann. I have been working on this work since 1868 with much preference, but am now forced to put the pen aside - senui enim et oculi mei caligaverunt. "

Ignac Orožen's historical work is still an important and indispensable source collection for historians who deal with Styrian-Slovenian regional history.

  • Celska kronika, (by Celi / Cilli 1854)
  • The diocese and diocese of Lavant. I. Theil, (1875)
  • The cathedral chapter.
  • The Deanery Marburg left bank of the Drau.
  • The Deanery Kötsch.
  • The Zirkoviz dean's office
  • The diocese and diocese of Lavant. Part II, (1875)
  • The Benedictine Abbey of Oberburg.
  • The Deanery Oberburg.
  • The diocese and diocese of Lavant. III. Theil, (1880)
  • The Saunien Archdeaconate.
  • The Deanery Cilli.
  • The diocese and diocese of Lavant. IV. Part, (1881)
  • The Deanery Fraßlau.
  • The Deanery Tüffer.
  • The diocese and diocese of Lavant. V. Theil, (1884)
  • The Dean's Office Schallthal.
  • The diocese and diocese of Lavant. VI. Theil, (1887)
  • The dean's office in Drachenburg.
  • The diocese and diocese of Lavant. VII. Part, (1887)
  • The Rohitsch dean's office.
  • The diocese and diocese of Lavant. VIII. Part, (1893)
  • The Deanery Neukirchen.

literature

  • J. Richter:  Orožen Ignaz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 250.
  • Vasilij Melik: Celska kronika supplement to the facsimile edition , Ljubljana 1997.
  • Franc Ksaver Lukman: Ignac Orožen , in: Slovenski biografski leksikon (The Slovenian Biographical Lexicon, SBL)
  • Harald Krahwinkler (Ed.): State-Land-Nation-Region , Hermagoras, Klagenfurt 2002, ISBN 3-85013-892-5 .
  • Arnold Suppan : Lower Styria, Krain and the coastal region between Maria Theresia and Franz Joseph (1740-1918) in: Arnold Suppan (Ed.): Between Adria and Karawanken , Siedler, Berlin 1998, 2002, ISBN 3-88680-218-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ I. Orožen, The Diocese IV. P. 163.
  2. ↑ H. Pirchegger, Erl. Hist. Atlas of the Austrian Alpine countries, church and County map, p. 157, Vienna 1940.
  3. ↑ I. Orožen, The Diocese VII. P. 70 f.
  4. ↑ Communications of the historical association for Styria, issue five, p. 17, Graz 1854.
personal data
SURNAME Orožen, Ignac
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian clergyman and historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Tüffer
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1900
Place of death Marburg on the Drau