Spiridon Gopčević
Spiridon Gopčević (first name also Spiridion , pseudonym : Leo Brenner ; born July 9, 1855 in Trieste , † 1936 in Berlin or 1928 ) was a South Slav - Austrian journalist , diplomat and astronomer .
Life
Gopčević attended the St. Anna Jesuit School in Vienna from 1861 to 1865 and the Melk Abbey High School from 1865 to 1869 . From 1875 he took part in the Herzegovinian uprising against the Ottomans and in the Montenegrin-Turkish War, which led to the withdrawal of the Ottomans in 1878. In the 1880s he worked as a war correspondent in the Balkans. He traveled to Siberia, North America, North Africa and the Middle East. He worked as a Serbian attaché in Berlin from 1886/87 and in Vienna from 1887 to 1890.
He has published numerous books on historical and political subjects, as well as in the field of astronomy. Opponents accused him of methodical errors.
In 1893 he founded the Manora observatory on the island of Mali Lošinj off Istria . From 1899 to 1908 he published the popular science Astronomical Rundschau . His friend, the astronomer Philipp Fauth, named a moon crater after his pseudonym Brenner . A newly built observatory on Mali Lošinj in 1993 and an astronomical association are also named after him.
Publications
- Montenegro and the Montenegrins , 1877
- The Turks and their Friends, and the Causes of the Serb-Bulgarian Revolt. Self-published, printed by Franz Eipeldauer & Comp, Vienna 1878.
- Upper Albania and its League , 1881
- Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia , 1886
- War history studies , 2 volumes, 1887
- Macedonia and Old Serbia , 1889
- (as Leo Brenner) Observation Objects for Amateur Astronomers , 1902
- (as Leo Brenner) The habitability of the worlds. Herman Hilger Verlag, Berlin / Leipzig 1905
- UNITED STATES. From the dollar country; Manners, Conditions, and Institutions of the United States , 1913
- The Principality of Albania, its past, ethnographic conditions, political situation and prospects for the future , 1914
- History of Montenegro and Albania , 1914
- From the land of unlimited hypocrisy. English conditions , 1915
- Russia and Serbia from 1804-1915. According to documents from the secret archives of St. Petersburg and Paris and the Vienna archive , 1916
- America's Role in World Wars , 1917
- The truth about Jesus according to the unearthed notes of his childhood friend , 1920
- Cultural history studies , 1920
- Austria's Downfall: The Consequences of Franz Josef's Malgovernment , 1920
- Serbo-Croatian conversation book combined with short language teaching and vocabulary , 1920
literature
- Spiridon Gopčević. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 32.
- G. Grimm: Gopčević, Spiridon . In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Volume 2. Munich 1976, p. 73 f.
- Michael Heim : Spiridion Gopčević: Life and Work. Albanian Research, Vol. 4. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1966.
- The ethnographer, publicist and adventurer Spiridon Gopčević on the Albanians (biographical information and excerpts from his book Das Fürstentum Albanien , online ; PDF; 198 kB). In: J. Bak, K. Kaser, M. Prochazka (eds.): Self-image and external images of the peoples of Eastern Europe (= Wieser Encyclopedia of the European East 18). Wieser, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-85129-518-8 , pp. 251-254 content ( Memento from August 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- Literature by and about Spiridon Gopčević in the catalog of the German National Library
- The curious career of Leo Brenner ( Memento from February 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 23 kB)
- Publications by L. Brenner in the Astrophysics Data System
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gopčević, Spiridon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gopčević, Spiridion; Brenner, Leo (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian journalist, diplomat and astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trieste |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1928 or 1936 |
| Place of death | Berlin |