Karl Johann Stephani

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Karl Johann Stephani (born November 23, 1876 in Markt Tekendorf , Kingdom of Hungary , † March 17, 1930 in Sibiu , Kingdom of Romania ) was a Transylvanian agronomist, author, publicist and art collector.

Life

He was the son of the Protestant pastor and teacher of Markt Tekendorf, Johannes Stephani (1841-1896), who wrote a chronicle of his home parish Gergeschdorf (ung. Gergelyfája, Rum. Ungurei) after his retirement, from which 1978 various excerpts in the magazine “ People and Culture ” ( Bucharest ) have been published.

Between 1895 and 1899 Karl J. Stephani studied - as a scholarship holder of the Evangelical Church of Transylvania - at the Institute for Agricultural Sciences at the University of Hohenheim ( Stuttgart ). Among his sponsors was Ernst Valentin von Strebel (1846–1927), director of the Agricultural Academy Hohenheim, who also wrote a foreword to Stephani's first major specialist publication. Von Strebel was appointed professor at the Agricultural Academy Hohenheim in 1881 , was director there from 1897 to 1912 and took over the field of agricultural economics with the directorate. Karl J. Stephani also studied in Berlin and graduated with a diploma. He did a doctoral thesis, but did not get a doctorate.

After completing his studies, Karl J. Stephani married on November 29, 1900 in Grafenberg (then Kingdom of Württemberg ) Clara Louise Pauline Hatzler (1876–1968), daughter of the director of the sugar factories in Pyritz (now Polish Pyrzyce ) and Klettendorf (now Polish Klecina) , District of Breslau / Wrocław, then the German Empire ). From this marriage there were six children.

From February 1904 to 1909 he lived with his family on a leased estate belonging to the Draas community . During this time he ran agriculture there in order to get to know the economic conditions of the local farmers.

From June 1908 until his death he was property director of the Evangelical Church Community AB Hermannstadt.

After Romania declared war on Austria-Hungary on August 27, 1916, he fled with his family and the employees of Bethlenszentmiklós, the Brukenthal Foundation in Klosdorf (Rum .: Sânmiclăuș ), for a few weeks before the advancing front from village to village Northwest to the town of Silla, but returned after the Romanian troops were pushed back from Transylvania.

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Karl J. Stephani made a name for himself through various specialist publications and through his varied work as secretary of the Transylvanian-Saxon Agricultural Association in Sibiu and, from 1909, as director of the evangelical church property in Transylvania and the Baron Brukenthal Foundation property also in Sibiu. As a member of the Hermannstädter Male Choir, founded in 1863, he played in the solo quartet of the club (bass), together with Victorine Phleps-Ott (soprano), Hermine Hager (alto) and August Schuster (tenor) as well as in the Philharmonic Choir of the male choir.

As an agronomist, he has published a number of studies and essays on agricultural topics in Transylvania.

His own estate near Michelsdorf (Hungarian Szásznagyvesszös, Rum. Veseuș ) - with a manor , vineyards and cellars, under the management of the heirs after 1930 - was expropriated after the Second World War by the new Romanian land reform law of March 23, 1945 and later in the train After the socialist collectivization of agriculture in Romania, it was transformed into an agricultural production cooperative.

Publications (selection)

  • The farm in Draas. Economic study. With a foreword by Professor E. v. Strebel. Sibiu: Verlag von W. Krafft, 1909.
  • Creation of a Saxon land register. Mediasch: Verlag GA Reissenberger, 1910.
  • Lease or self-management of the Carl Baron Brukenthal'schen Stiftungsgut Klosdorf - Bethlenszentmiklós. Sibiu: Verlag Josef Drotleff, 1913.
  • Agrarian reform. Comments on draft agrarian reform law [study published in continuation]. In: Siebenbürgisch-Deutsche Tagespost (Hermannstadt), 1919, No. 112, 113, 115. As a separate print from Josef Drotleff: Hermannstadt, 1919, 18 pp.
  • On the Transylvanian agrarian reform. From a professional side. In: Siebenbürgisch-Deutsche Tagespost (Hermannstadt), 1919, No. 133, 177–179. As a separate print from Josef Drotleff: Hermannstadt, 1919, 24 pp.

Literature (selection)

  • Johannes Stephani: Memories from Teckendorf. Recorded by J. Stephani, pastor and teacher in Teckendorf, 1875/76. Verlag Botschar: Bistritz, separate print, undated, 28 pages.
  • Johannes Stephani: Memories from the Nösner Land. Records, 1876. By J. Stephani, pastor and teacher in Teckendorf, 1876. Verlag Botschar: Bistritz, special print, undated, 32 pages.
  • (Johannes Stephani): Tekendorf. Separate print from Transylvania-Deutsches Tageblatt (Hermannstadt), No. 7652, 7653, 7707, 7708. Printed by Josef Drotleff: Hermannstadt, 1899, 18 pp.
  • Emil Sigerus : Chronicle of the city of Sibiu, 1100–1929. 2nd edition. Honterus printing and publishing house. Sibiu, 1930.
  • Hermann Hienz: Sources on folklore and local history of the Transylvanian Saxons. Verlag S. Hirzel: Leipzig, 1940, p. 60, 891-894; P. 297; P. 148, No. 2237.
  • Johannes Markus; Michael Markus; Martin Paulini: Draas through the ages. Printing house: Nuremberg , 1977.
  • (Karl Stephani): Bridges across times and spaces. Family legends from the Zekescher Land (1936). In: Volk und Kultur (Bucharest), 30/2, 1978, p. 48.
  • Karl Stephani: Notes from Gergeschdorf, 1936. In: Volk und Kultur (Bucharest), 30/2, 1978.
  • Karl Stephani: Folk Tales from the Zekescher Land (1936). In: Volk und Kultur (Bucharest), 33/3, March 1981, p. 52.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helene Tietz: My five lives. My favorite book publisher, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-9807769-8-0 , p. 65.
  2. ↑ Wanderer between two worlds . In: Geislinger Zeitung . June 30, 1961, p. 5 .
  3. ^ Transylvanian newspaper . December 15, 1968, p. 8 .
  4. ↑ a b Helene Tietz: My five lives. My favorite book publisher, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-9807769-8-0 .
  5. ^ A b Karl Johann Stephani: The agricultural enterprise in Draas. Verlag W. Krafft, Hermannstadt 1909, p. XIV.
  6. ↑ Presbyterialsitzungsprotokoll the Protestant parish AB Sibiu from June 20, 1908 (400 / 276-12), the Central Archives of the Evangelical Church AC in Romania, Sibiu.
  7. ↑ minutes of the presbytery of the Evangelical Church of Sibiu AB on 24 March 1930 (400 / 276-31), the Central Archives of the Evangelical Church AC in Romania, Sibiu.
  8. ↑ Posthumously on 10.1.1964 by the Evangelical Presbytery AB, Sibiu, certificate of service based on "Salary books and the minutes of the Evangelical Presbytery AB Hermannstadt of April 1, 1930".
  9. ↑ Helene Tietz: My five lives. My favorite book publisher, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-9807769-8-0 , pp. 41-42.
  10. ↑ Invitation to the performance of the oratorio “The Seven Words of the Redeemer on the Cross” by Josef Haydn by the Hermannstädter Männergesangverein […] Druckerei Georg Halser, Schmiedgasse, on Friday, June 7th 1912 at 8 o'clock in the evening in the Protestant parish church .
personal data
SURNAME Stephani, Karl Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Transylvanian agronomist, author, journalist and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Market Tekendorf , Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1930
Place of death Sibiu , Kingdom of Romania