Johann Lupul

Johann von Lupul , also Iancu Lupul , Ioan Lupul and Janko Lupul (born September 9, 1836 in Wolczynetz (Volcineț) , today Chernivtsi Oblast ; † 1922 in Chernivtsi ) was an Austro-Romanian poet and politician , long-time member of the Reich Council and governor of the Duchy of Bukovina .

Political activity

The trained lawyer and administrative officer became involved in politics early on; In 1864 he became a town councilor in Czernowitz (until 1888). Two years later he won a mandate for the faction of large estates in the Bukovinian state parliament and became an assessor in the state committee. In March 1868, Johann von Lupul, as a city councilor from Czernowitz and member of the state parliament, signed the petition drawn up by Baron Alexander Wassilko von Serecki and presented to the House of Representatives on June 19 of the same year by the Greek Orthodox co-religionists of Bukovina to exercise the autonomy of their church.

From 1885 to 1894 he represented Romanian interests as a member of the Reichsrat and was second vice-president of this house from 1898 to 1900.

After the affair surrounding the state president Anton Graf Pace von Friedensberg, the latter had to resign from his office in May 1892, but also the governor Baron Alexander Wassilko von Serecki, who was heavily involved on the other side, was no longer willing to continue his office, Lupul received against Anton Kochanowski von Stawczan the majority of votes in the nomination of the new governor. With the highest resolution of August 27, 1892, he took over the leadership of the state parliament on September 1 of that year. He was not to be replaced until 1904 by Georg Wassilko von Serecki , the son of the former governor.

Writing activity

Johann and his brother Theodor (1838-1858), who died early, were Romanians, but wrote and wrote in German. While the famous Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu developed a similar development to Joseph Georg Fedkowicz, later Fedkowytsch , the latter wrote his works, influenced by German Romanticism, in German, before becoming the folk poet of his Ruthenian compatriots, the Lupul brothers wrote exclusively in German. This is all the more surprising since Johann politically pursued a strict Romanian national line.

Although Lupul contributed to the “Sunday newspaper of Bukovina” for years and also wrote prose with the book “Streiflichter Czernowitz 1902”, he was primarily a poet. Stylistically, he follows Heinrich Heine and Nikolaus Lenau's successor and wrote a total of forty-nine poems, all of which appeared between 1855 and 1874. They were mainly published in Wilhelm Cappilleris (1834–1905) "Buchenblätter" in Chernivtsi.

The politician and man of letters is titled "von Lupul" in some publications, but there is no evidence that Johann was ennobled.

predecessor	Office	successor
Alexander Freiherr Wassilko von Serecki	Governor of the Duchy of Bukovina 1892–1904	Count (1918) Georg Wassilko von Serecki

literature

• Stanescu:  Lupul, Janko (Iancu von?) (1836–1922), writer. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 372.
• Mihai-Ştefan Ceauşu, Chernivtsi, 1892. In: Wladimir Fischer (Ed.), Waltraud Heindl: Spaces and Borders in Austria-Hungary 1867–1918: Approaches based on cultural studies . Francke Verlag, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-7720-8239-9 .
• Natalia Shchyhlevska: German-speaking authors from Bukovina . Volume 55 of studies on German and European literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, Verlag P. Lang, 2004

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bukowinaer Rundschau No. 466, from Thursday, January 12, 1888, p. 2.
2. ↑ Court and State Manual of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, 1876
3. ↑ Stenographic minutes of the meetings of the House of Deputies of the Reichsrath, Volume 4, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1869, pp. 4079 ff
4. ↑ zeno.org , Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon : Lupul, Johann
5. ↑ Meyers-1905-Vol-12, page 863
6. ↑ Mihai-Ştefan Ceauşu, Chernivtsi, 1892. In: Wladimir Fischer (Ed.), Waltraud Heindl: Spaces and Borders in Austria-Hungary 1867–1918: cultural studies approaches . Francke Verlag, 2010, p. 409, here p. 33 ff.
7. ^ Laibacher Zeitung of September 1, 1892
8. ↑ Karl Kurt Klein: Literaturgeschichte des Deutschtums abroad , including Volume 4 by Friedrich Vogt: History of German Literature from the Oldest Times to the Present , Bibliographisches Institut, 1939, p. 221
9. ↑ Hartmut Merkt: "Poetry in Isolation", Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, p. 57
10. ↑ Hartmut Merkt: "Poetry in Isolation", Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, p. 57
11. ↑ Siebenbürgische Zeitung, volume 16, October 15, 1998, p. 6
12. ↑ Isabel Röskau-Rydel: Galizien, Bukowina, Moldau - German History in Eastern Europe , Siedler Verlag, 1999, p. 421 ff
13. ↑ bmukk.gv.at (PDF; 388 kB), Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture : Restitution Report 2002/2003 , in English
14. ↑ Stanescu:  Lupul, Janko (Iancu from?) (1836-1922), writer. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 372.
15. ↑ Dieter Kessler: "The German literatures of Transylvania, the Banates and the Buchenland: from the Revolution to the end of the First World War (1848-1918)", Volume 23 of Studia Transylvanica, Verlag Böhlau, Vienna 1997, p. 523 f.