Slovanská Beseda

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Slovanská Beseda , German: Slavic Conversation , was a Viennese association for people of Slavic origin to maintain the Slavic languages ​​and Slavic culture in Austria . It developed into a cultural gathering point for the Bohemian nobility and the Czech elite.

The statutes did not intend to exert political influence, but it could not be entirely ruled out as an active association of an ethnic minority in Austria.

Since 1848 efforts had been made to found such an association. Finally, the statutes were approved in 1864 and the association was officially founded in 1865. Founding member and first chairman from 1865 was Eugen Karl Graf Czernin von und zu Chudenitz . After the association was founded, pamphlets were sent out in Czech , Slovak , Polish , Russian , Serbo-Croatian , Bulgarian , Slovene and German with the aim of convincing the Slavs in Vienna of the need for such a cultural union. The founders included important representatives of the Austrian aristocracy , members of the Austrian mansion , the Imperial Council , the Bohemian Academy of Sciences and the high clergy .

The journalistic organ was initially the Slavic Papers , which has been self-published by Abel Lukšić since the association was founded (1865) . According to self-promotion, they were "monthly books for literature, art and sciences, for public and social life, for regional and ethnology , for history, fiction etc. of the Slavic peoples, with the participation of outstanding writers and artists."

literature

  • Slavic leaves. Illustrated magazine for the general interests of slavery , Abel Lukšić Verlag, Vienna 1865 digitized

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Pesendorfer, Marta Brousek: Viennese impressions - on the trail of Czech history in Vienna , page 25, Association of Wiener Volksbildung, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3900799385 or ISBN 9783900799380 ( excerpt )
  2. ↑ Abel Lukšić (Ed.): Slavic sheets. Illustrated magazine for the general interests of slavery , Verlag Abel Lukšić, Vienna 1865, page 567f. ( Digitized version )
  3. ↑ Monika Glettler: The Viennese Czechs around 1900. Structural analysis of a national minority in the big city , page 84, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1972, ISBN 3486438212 or ISBN 9783486438215 ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ Robert Naumann: Serapeum. Journal for Library Science ... (1865), page 30, Verlag TO Weigel, Leipzig 1865 ( digitized version )