Jožef Šavli

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Jožef "Jožko" Šavli (born March 22, 1943 in Tolmino , Italy ; † March 11, 2011 in Gorizia , Italy) was a Slovenian teacher ("professore") for business subjects at a school in Gorizia, the sensational theories about the past the Slovenian nation and language developed.

Life

After graduating from a commercial college in 1962 and graduating from the University of Ljubljana in 1967, after a brief teaching activity, he continued his studies in Vienna at what was then the University of World Trade , where he received his doctorate in 1975 with a dissertation on the economic development of a Lower Austrian district. Then he returned to his teaching position as a teacher in the economic subject in Gorizia (Gorizia / Gorica) in Italy. Šavli comes from a rural area on the Isonzo (the Slovenian Soča) in the old coastal country , which has always been a meeting point of peoples and cultures throughout history. The Slovenian, Italian and German cultures have been in constant contact here. This stimulated Šavli to deal with the history, nomenclature and cultural structure of the Eastern Alps since his student days.

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In the 1980s, Šavli “reconstructed” the heraldic emblem of the black panther as a symbol of Carantania . Several noble families, who, as he claims, come from old Carantania, are said to have had a panther in their coat of arms. He also claims to have discovered several documents and sources that mention a black panther as an ancient symbol of Carinthia and further believes that the black panther can also be recognized in the silver panther in the Styrian coat of arms . After 1991 there were several initiatives to install the black panther as the Slovenian national coat of arms.

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His historical and ethnographic studies were mainly published in Glas Korotana (Vienna) in the Slovene language, but also in various other magazines from Trieste , Ljubljana / Laibach and Carinthia as well as on the website www.carantha.net , which he founded .

Šavli achieved public fame with the study “Our ancestors - the Venetians”. Together with Matej Bor , he took up the old Venetian theory , according to which the Slovenes were descended from the ancient Venetians as descendants of the Carantans and were therefore not ethnically the descendants of the Slavic immigration to the Balkans, which only took place in the 6th century.

On the other hand, Šavli concluded that the Slavs must have colonized Europe much earlier than is mentioned in writing. This view also corresponds to his thesis about the origin of the Frankish foreign name Wenden , which can be derived from the name of the (Vistula) Venetian culture, which originally settled on the Vistula and was subjected to by the Ostrogoths . The word Wenden is derived from Venedae , with which the neighboring Slavs were referred to as Windische in numerous German-speaking areas in the Middle Ages .

In his publications on Carantania, Šavli saw the Karantan state as an early political term in Central Europe , and he presented his medieval “Grand Duchy of Carantania / Carinthia” as a successful predecessor of the Central European “Alps-Adriatic Region” that crossed national borders within the framework of the European Union . In his conception of Karantania, four language groups would have politically coexisted peacefully side by side: Slavic-speaking and “German” -speaking Karantans, the new Latin-speaking Friulians and the Romance (Italian) Venetians. Coexistence of these language or ethnic groups was not a problem at a time when in Europe only belonging to Christianity was decisive. This historical view of Carantania is atypical both for the German nationalists on the Carinthian side and for the Pan-Slavic approach on the Slovenian side. However, from the scientific point of view, it is seriously doubted that the power of the Carantan princes from the 6th century to the 9th century ever extended over the Karawanken south to Upper Carniola . Only in the south-east is Carantania likely to have extended into the area of ​​the former Lower Styria , an assumption that was made in 2003 through the discovery of wall remnants from the oldest church building from Carolingian times in a presumably Carantanic area in the area of ​​Georgskirche von Legen , now a district of Windischgraz / Slovenj Gradec , is hardened.

Like Šavli's Venetian theory and Karantan theory, all of his subsequent theories, such as the possible relationship between Slovenes and Swedes or the derivation of the “Slavic” name (“Slovani”) from the name of “Sloveneti”, which in turn was shortened to “Veneti” was, to Šavli's annoyance, not taken seriously by Slovenian experts, but they sparked considerable enthusiasm among the population, which led the eminent Slovenian historian Bogo Grafenauer (1916–1995) to state: “Nowhere else in the world can you find similar historiographical eccentricities as wide a response as among the Slovenes. ”They met with a particularly strong response from exiled Slovenian circles in Australia, South and North America, where they were enthusiastically discussed and republished, whereupon such publications again served as confirmation for Šavli. He died in Gorizia a few days before his 68th birthday.

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  • Jožko Šavli, Matej Bor: Our ancestors - the Venetians . Edited by Ivan Tomažič. Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-85013-110-6
  • Jožko Šavli, Carantania, a predecessor of Central Europe's Historia magistra est vitae. ( Memento from May 25, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Contemporary document »Life together« 70 years after the referendum in Carinthia
  • Jožko Šavli: Central Europe as a common legacy of prehistory in spiritual and cultural significance . Carantha History of Slovenia Carantania, carantha.net ( Memento from January 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  • Jožko Šavli: Slovenska znamenja (Slovenian characters). Založba (Publishing House) Humar, Gorizia / Bilje 1994. [The book also contains German-language excerpts and summaries (e.g. Fürstenstein , Herzogstuhl ) from the relevant Slovene-language passages.]
  • Jožko Šavli: Karantanija . Nova Gorica 2007.
  • Jožko Šavli: Slovenska država Karantanija (The Slovenian State of Carantania). Ljubljana 1990, ISBN 86-7089-001-1
  • Jožko Šavli: Karantanski klobuk najpristnejši slovenski simbol (The carantan hat, the most distinctive Slovenian symbol). Glas Korotana (Voice of the Korotan), 1981, 7, 7-37.
  • Jožko Šavli: Črni panter - najstarejši karantanski grb (The black panther - the oldest Carantan coat of arms). Glas Korotana, 1981, 7, 38-68.
  • Jožko Šavli: Lipa drevo življenja (The linden, the tree of life). Glas Korotana, 1982, 8, 5-50.
  • Jožko Šavli: Veneti naši davni predniki? (The Venetians, our ancestors?). Glas Korotana, 1985, 10, 5-50.
  • Jožko Šavli: Knežji came in njegova simbolika (The prince stone and its symbolism). Glas Korotana, 1986, 11, 4-51.
  • Jožko Šavli: Vojvodski stol (The Duke's Chair ). Glas Korotana, 1987, 12, 7-89.
  • Jožko Šavli: Slovenska država Karantanija (The Slovenian State of Carantania), Založba Lipa, Koper (Capodistria). Editiones Veneti, Vienna; Karantanija, Ljubljana 1990.

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  1. ↑ Catalog of the Austrian National Library: ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Savli, Josef [sic!], Economic Structure and Regional Economic Development in the Political District of Horn (Lower Austria) , hs. Dissertation University for World Trade, Vienna 1975 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / aleph.onb.ac.at
  2. ↑ Carantha. History of Slovenia . ( Memento from July 24, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič: The Dissolution of the Slavic Identity of the Slovenes in the 1980s. The Case of the Venetic Theory. (PDF; 500 kB) Diploma thesis Central European University, Budapest 2008, p. 92
  4. ↑ Jožko Šavli, Matej Bor : Our ancestors - the Venetians . Edited by Ivan Tomažič, Vienna 1988.
  5. ↑ Hilza Elina: The Sorbs / Wends in Germany . House for Sorbian Folk Culture Bautzen
  6. ↑ Heinz Schuster-Šewc : The Sorbian - a Slavic language in Germany. In: Akademie-Journal 2/2001 “Languages ​​in Europe”. Union of the German Academies of Sciences, pp. 31–35 ( PDF ).
  7. ↑ Jožko Šavli: Karantanien, a predecessor of Central Europe's Historia magistra est vitae. ( Memento from May 25, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) In: “The common life”. 70 years after the referendum in Carinthia . Zeitdokument.at
  8. ↑ Peter Štih: Searching for history or how the Karantan prince stone has become the national symbol of the Slovenes. ( Memento of February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Central Association of Slow Organizations and Slow Cultural Association, October 30, 2006
  9. ↑ Jožko Šavli: The Vends in Scandinavia , in the original ( Memento from July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  10. ↑ Who are the Veneti: The contemporary name for the Slavic family of nations “Slovani”
  11. ↑ Jožko Šavli: Črni panter grb Karantanije, njegovo odkritje in Pomen
  12. ↑ Bogo Grafenauer: Ob tisočtristoletnici slovanske naselitve na današnje slovensko narodnostno ozemlj In: Paulus Diaconus, Zgodovina Langobardov - Historia Langobardorum . Obzorja, Maribor 1988, p. 421; Quoted in translation from Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič: The Dissolution of the Slavic Identity of the Slovenes in the 1980 , p. 98
  13. ↑ z. B. from Aleksandra Čeferin u. a .: Thezaurus .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Edited by the Institute for Slovenian Studies of Victoria / Viktoruski Institut za Slovenistiko, Australia, or from Canada in Igor H. Pirnovar: Antique Europe / Evropa v antiki in poprej .@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.thezaurus.com  
  14. ↑ Jožko Šavli IN MEMORIAM  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 19, 2011 (English)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.thezaurus.com  
personal data
SURNAME Šavli, Jožef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Šavli, Jožko (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian social and economic scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Tolmino , Italy
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 2011
Place of death Gorizia , Italy