Josip Tončić-Sorinj

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Josip Tončić , since 1911 Tončić Edler von Sorinj (born November 16, 1847 in Rab , † July 17, 1931 in Split ) was a Dalmatian journalist, politician and deputy governor of Dalmatia.

Life

Josip Tončić-Sorinj
Josip Toncic 1906-1911

Tončić came from an artisan family on the island of Rab . Despite his humble origins, he studied and turned to politics at a very young age. Dalmatia at that time was shaped by the disputes between the national Croatian Narodnjaki and the Autonomaši, who advocated the retention of the Dalmatian peculiarity while preserving the Italian language. Tončić was a staunch Narodnjaki and, as such, advocated the unification of Dalmatia with Croatia and Slavonia and, as a young man, published articles in the Zadar magazine ll Nazionale , of which he was editor, for the Croatian rebirth movement. He had written the article "Kossuth e Deak" for which he was arrested and convicted in 1869. It came against him and the editor to the famous Processo del Nazionale , the result of which was the breakthrough in the recognition of the Croatian language and with it the position of the Croatian Party, the National Party.

After his release he was no longer allowed to study in Austria, but went to the university in Belgrade. There he was employed in the Serbian Foreign Ministry and eventually became Secretary of the Serbian Prime Minister Jovan Ristić . When he returned to Zadar he became editor-in-chief of "Zemljak" and then in 1877 he entered the administrative service. His main motive for this was to strengthen the Croatian element in the administrative service and so he became one of the few Croatians in the administrative service, which was then completely dominated by German and Italian-speaking officials. He pursued this career path as district captain of Hvar, Split, Šibenik, Dubrovnik and finally Zadar. 1906 to 1911 he was the deputy governor of Dalmatia. The governor was Niko Nardelli from Korčula , who had been able to exercise his office only to a limited extent for health reasons since the summer of 1907. Tončić exercised this office in large phases: “Mr. Niko is governor in this country, but it is a fact that a second someone takes care of this“ province ”instead of him in sunshine and clouds, that a second someone pulls all the strings Politics in hand and that it has acquired a sharp and angular contour as a result. This second someone is well known, it is the already mentioned councilor in the Lieutenancy. “ The greatest achievement of the Lieutenants Nardelli / Tončić was without a doubt the introduction of Croatian as the internal official language of Dalmatia in 1912.

In 1911 Josip Tončić was raised to the nobility with the title " Noble of Sorinj". After the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire of the family went to the nobility repeal Act 1919, the ennoblement lost.

When the Austro-Hungarian monarchy collapsed, Josip Tončić-Sorinj was appointed President of the National Council in Zadar and in 1918, together with the Dalmatian politicians Edo Bulat and Juraj Bianchini, announced the unification of Dalmatia with Croatia, in whose capital Zagreb a government of Croats, Slavons and Serbs formed, which was later overrun by developments from Belgrade. His uncompromising resistance to the Italian occupation in 1918/19 led, now at the age of 70, to his several months' imprisonment by the Italians and his deportation to Perugia. After Zadar was assigned to Italy as an enclave according to the border treaties of Rapallo in 1920, he moved to Split, where he died on July 17, 1931.

Josip Tončić-Sorinj was the father of Kamilo Tončić-Sorinj and the grandfather of the later Austrian Foreign Minister Lujo Tončić-Sorinj , who finally played an active and decisive role in Croatia's declaration of independence and the developments that followed in the early 1990s.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tončić-Sorinj, Lujo: Fulfilled dreams; Croatia, Austria, Europe; Vienna 1982, p. 23 ff
  2. ^ From: Das Vaterland, newspaper for the Austrian monarchy; No. 166, June 17, 1867, page 3, column 2: Zara, June 11 ...
  3. ↑ Pokret 4/1907 (June 16, 1907). The article has the subtitle “Correspondents report from Zadar”, but is not signed by name. Quoted from Wolfgang Pav: Niko Nardelli - Austria's governor in Dalmatia 1906-1911. Vienna 2010, p. 30.
  4. ^ Wolfgang Pav: Niko Nardelli - Austria's governor in Dalmatia 1906-1911. Vienna 2010
  5. ^ Tončić-Sorinj, Lujo: The world of the Croatians at the beginning of the third millennium; Vienna 2002, p. 24 ff
  6. ^ Tončić-Sorinj, Lujo: The world of the Croatians at the beginning of the third millennium; Vienna 2002
personal data
SURNAME Tončić-Sorinj, Josip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tončić, Josip; Tončić nobleman from Sorinj, Josip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dalmatian politician and deputy governor of Dalmatia
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Rab
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1931
Place of death Split