Leopold Hasner from Artha

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Leopold Hasner von Artha (born March 15, 1818 in Prague , † June 5, 1891 in Bad Ischl ) was a Bohemian - Austrian lawyer and politician .

Leopold Hasner from Artha

Life

Monument in Bad Ischl

Hasner von Artha studied law in his hometown, received his doctorate in Vienna in 1842 and was employed by the Court Chamber Procuratorate until 1848. 1848 editor of the official "Prager Zeitung", since 1849 associate professor of legal philosophy, since 1851 full professor of political science at the University of Prague .

As such, he was, along with his friend Gustav Biedermann, one of the most outstanding representatives of the Hegelian School in Austria, in whose spirit he wrote the basic lines of the philosophy of law and its history and, in addition to numerous legal and art-critical journal articles, also a system of political economy , from which until 1888 only the first part has appeared.

Since 1861 Hasner von Artha was active in parliamentary life as a member of the Bohemian state parliament and the House of Representatives in the Reichsrat . In the very first session of the latter, he stepped up to the head of the house, Franz Hein , as Vice-President, and after he had become Minister of Justice, he took over the presidium of the House of Representatives.

Since June 1863 he headed the teaching council, a creation of short duration. In 1865 he resumed teaching as a professor of political science at the University of Vienna and was appointed court advisor at the same time. In April 1867 he was appointed a lifelong member of the manor.

Particularly familiar with the conditions of public education, he took over the management of the Ministry of Culture and Education in the cabinet of Prince Karl Wilhelm Philipp von Auersperg (the " Citizens' Ministry ") on December 30, 1867 (until February 1, 1870). In this position he directed his main endeavors towards the creation of an elementary school law, which was implemented despite the resistance of the Austrian episcopate . Some of the essential foundations of the modern education system that he created were the independence of teaching from churches and religious communities in 1868/69, the introduction of the Realschule as a full-fledged secondary school without Latin, the creation of the Reich Primary School Act with cross-denominational community teaching and the opening of the medical faculty at the University of Innsbruck .

In the conflict that broke out between the members of the Taaffe Ministry , Hasner von Artha belonged to the centralized majority, and after leaving the minority he served from February 1 to April 4, 1870 (resignation) and April 12, 1870 (dismissal ) as kk Prime Minister. He was the brother of the ophthalmologist Joseph Hasner von Artha .

In Austria, some traffic areas are named after the politician, in Linz- Waldegg the Hasnerstraße (formerly Leopold-Hasner-Straße ), in Graz ( Geidorf district ) the Hasnerplatz , on the south side of which the Pädagogische Hochschule Steiermark (built in 1909 as a teacher- Bildungsanstalt) and Hasnerstrasse in Vienna - Ottakring (16th district) .

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SURNAME Hasner von Artha, Leopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hasner, Leopold von; Hasner, Leopold (until 1836); Hasner Ritter von Artha, Leopold (from 1855)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian-Austrian lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1891
Place of death Bad Ischl