Paul Apovnik

Paul Apovnik (born June 28, 1935 in Schattenberg , Carinthia ) is an Austrian Carinthian Slovenian lawyer , journalist and lexicographer .

Life

Paul Apovnik comes from a Carinthian Slovenian family in Schattenberg / Senčni kraj in the former municipality of Loibach, today the municipality of Bleiburg / Pliberk. The bitter experiences in the Bleiburg primary school in the war years 1941 to 1945, when teachers and school children were strictly forbidden to use the Slovene language, shaped his life and work for the forbidden Slovene language.

1947–1955 attended the federal high school in Tanzenberg and the federal high school in Klagenfurt, 1955–1960 studied law at the University of Vienna with subsequent legal practice in Klagenfurt, 1961 admitted to the administrative service of the state of Carinthia, worked in the district authorities Villach, Wolfsberg and Völkermarkt, 1964– 1973 deputy to the district captain in Völkermarkt, 1974–1994 in the office of the Carinthian provincial government, most recently as head of the ethnic group office for the Slovenian ethnic group.

Public work

After completing his studies, Paul Apovnik initially worked on a voluntary basis in the political representative organizations of the Carinthian Slovenes . In 1975 he stood as the top candidate of the Enotna lista in the state elections. The achieved number of votes of 6,130 was not enough for a state parliament mandate. In addition to his work as a civil servant, a focus of his work is numerous lectures and seminars on the Slovenian legal language and the long-term supervision of the teaching position of Slovenian legal and administrative language at the University of Graz and Slovenian business language at the University of Klagenfurt. The result of many years of work is the German-Slovenian and Slovenian-German dictionary of legal and business language , written together with Ludwig Karničar , as well as the Slovenian legal lexicon (Slovenski pravni leksikon), written with two co-authors.

Awards

• 2005 Zlati red za zasluge Republike Slovenije (Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Slovenia)
• 2000 Joško Carpenter Prize from the Council of Carinthian Slovenes and the Christian Cultural Association
• 1995 Great Golden Decoration of the State of Carinthia

Fonts

• Apovnik, Paul / Karničar, Ludwig: Dictionary of Legal and Business Language, Part I: German-Slovenian. Commission publisher of Manz'schen Verlags- und Universitätsbuchhandlung, Vienna 1989.
• Apovnik, Pavel / Karničar, Ludvik: Slovar pravnega in ekonomskega jezika, 2nd del: slovensko-nemški. Manz'sche publishing and university bookstore , Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-214-05651-4 .
• Apovnik, Pavel / Primožič, Karlo / Feri, Aleksander: Slovenski pravni leksikon z nemškimi besed italijanskimi ustreznicami geselskih. Ljubljana: OST - svetovalne storitve: Društvo znanstvenih in tehniških prevajalcev Slovenije, 1999, ISBN 961-90726-0-X (Slovenian legal dictionary with German and Italian equivalents for the lexicon keywords )
• Apovnik, Pavel: Kultura Koroških Slovencev in njen odnos od kulture sosedov. In: Celovški Zvon. II / 3, June 1984 ( PDF, 4 MB ).
• Apovnik, Paul: On the status of Art. 7 of the State Treaty of 1955. In: The common Carinthia / Skupna Koroška, ​​documentation of the German-Slovenian coordination committee of the diocese of Gurk. Volume 10, Klagenfurt 1985, pp. 280-301 ( PDF, 7 MB ).
• Apovnik, Paul: Advisory boards - a suitable instrument for solving minority issues? In: Kärnten-Documentation, Volume 10, An autonomous representation for the Carinthian Slovenes, Congress of the People's Groups 1991 - Eisenkappel, presentations and materials. (Ed. by Paul Apovnik / Ralf Unkart), Klagenfurt 1992, ISBN 3-901258-02-7 , pp. 49-57 ( PDF, 5 MB ).
• Apovnik, Pavel: Ne bode prazen jerbas moj. In: Milka Hartman, Zimske rože, izbrane pesmi. Mohorjeva založba. Celovec-Ljubljana-Dunaj 1998, ISBN 3-85013-535-7 ( PDF, 2 MB ).
• Apovnik, Paul: On the creation of the German-Slovenian and Slovenian-German dictionary of legal and business language. In: Slovenes and Graz / Gradec in Slovenci, monograph on the international conference from March 27th to March 1st, 2014 at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. (Ed. by Ludwig Karničar / Andreas Leben), Graz 2014, pp. 311–319 ( PDF, 4 MB ).
• Apovnik, Pavel: Kako je nastal 'Slovar pravnega in ekonomskega jezika' / How the 'Dictionary of Legal and Business Language' came about. In: Andreas Leben, Martina Orožen, Erich Prunč (eds.): Contributions to interdisciplinary Slovenian studies / Prispevki k meddisciplinarni slovenistiki. Festschrift for Ludwig Karničar on his 65th birthday. Leykam, Graz 2014, ISBN 978-3-7011-0304-1 , pp. 39-46 ( PDF, 5 MB ).

literature

• Boris Jesih: Apovnik, Pavel. In: Enciklopedija Slovenije, Volume 1, Mladinska knjiga. Ljubljana 1987, pp. 93-94.
• Andrej Vovko: Apovnik, Pavel. In: Novi Slovenski biografski leksikon. (New Slovenian Biographical Lexicon), 1. zv., A. Ur. Barbara Svetina et al. Ljubljana, Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, 2013.
• Martina Piko Rustia: 70-letnica dr. Pavla Apovnika. In: Novi glas. (Gorica), July 7, 2005
• Silvo Kumer: Upam na odprtost mlajše generacije - 70-letnica dr. Pavla Apovnika . Publishing house Novice, Celovec / Klagenfurt 2005.

Web links

• Vovko, Andrej: Apovnik, Pavel. In: Slovenska Biografija (Slovenian biography)