Isidor Bogdan Zahradník

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Isidor Bogdan Zahradník (* as Bogdan Zahradnik on June 25, 1864 in Hostačov ; † February 19, 1926 in Vienna ) was a premonstratensian and politician .

Life

Bogdan Zahradník was born into a gardener family, attended elementary school from 1871 to 1875 and from 1875 the grammar school in Deutschbrod . He entered the Premonstratensian order and was dressed on October 14, 1883 in the Strahov Monastery in Prague . He received the religious name Isidore . From 1884 to 1888 he studied theology at the University of Prague , made his solemn profession on April 29, 1888 and was ordained a priest on July 5, 1888 .

He was a chaplain in Rochlice and from 1890 in Jihlava . On November 3, 1897, he received his doctorate at the University of Prague. From 1898 he was a librarian in the Strahov Monastery, on July 1, 1904 he became a member of the Bohemian Academy of Sciences .

His political activity began in 1907 as a member of the Reichstag for the Workers' Party in the Reichsrat in Vienna , but he was expelled from the party in 1911 and renounced his mandate in 1917.

After the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy , he became the first Czech rail minister on November 14, 1918. He joined the Czech National Church and resigned from the Premonstratensian Order on December 23, 1919. Subsequently, in 1920 he was chairman of the coat of arms commission and envoy of the Czech Republic to the Austrian section of the reparations commission . In 1925 he was appointed director of the Prague mortgage bank. In 1926 - shortly before his death - he converted to the Orthodox Church .

literature

  • Joachim F. Angerer: Dr. Isidor Bogdan Zahradnik O. Praem. (1824–1926), conventuals of the Strahov / Prague monastery and Jakob Kern O. Praem. (1897–1924), Geras Abbey In: Geraser Hefte No. 39, 1997 year . Ferd. Berger, Horn 1997