Rudolf Trofenik

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Rudolf Trofenik (born April 15, 1911 in Marburg an der Drau ; † December 7, 1991 in Munich ) was a lawyer , publisher , editor and author .

Book series: History, Culture and Spiritual World of the Slovenes , Volume 1 1968 Verlag Dr. Dr. Rudolf Trofenik.

biography

Trofenik was born in the Lower Styrian town of Marburg (now Maribor in Slovenia ). After high school he studied at the University in Ljubljana / Laibach first Jura , then at Franz Weber (France Veber) philosophy and classical philology . He completed his studies with a doctorate in both areas and then qualified as a lecturer in criminal law. At the law faculty of this university, he worked as a private lecturer until his dismissal for ideological reasons by the communist regime in February 1946. Rudolf Trofenik was now under political quarantine in Yugoslavia for ten years until he managed to legally move to the Federal Republic in 1956 To leave Germany.

He settled in Munich and began building a new life under difficult conditions. At first he was scientifically active, published his own articles in Southeastern European publications and traded in antiquarian books. Later he founded the publishing house Dr. Dr. Rudolf Trofenik and specialized in the printing of older writings from the German and Slovenian language area about the history and culture of the Slovenes and southern Slavs . In addition, magazines and series of publications appeared in his publishing house, which dealt with special topics of the Southeast European region from Hungary in the north to the Bosporus in the south.

Naturally, the books he published could not achieve large print runs because the market was too small, and the libraries and private individuals in Southeastern Europe who were interested were mostly unable to raise the foreign currency amounts at the time. Nevertheless, Southeast European science owed a great deal to the idealistic commitment of this publisher, which was also recognized by the award of the Federal Cross of Merit.

Rudolf Trofenik lived to see his Slovenian homeland striving for independence and took an active part in it. On December 7, 1991, at the age of 80, he died in the Bavarian capital and was buried on December 13, 1991 in Munich's north cemetery.

Honors

Works (selection)

Facsimile editions

Book series

  • Litterae Slovenicae
  • The Slovenian folk song in all its diversity (1968)
  • The Hochstift Freising and the colonization of the Lack rule in the Middle Ages (1968)
  • Medieval manuscripts from the National and University Library in Ljubljana (1968)
  • Which are the most fashionable secondary trades for the country folk, but mainly in the Duchy of Carniola (1972)
  • About the character of the Slovene folk culture in Carinthia (1973)
  • Valvasor's time, life and work. Accompanying Word to the Reprint of the Honor of the Hertduchy of Crain (1973)
  • Slovani, v iztočni Pustriški dolini, na Tirolskem (1985)
  • This important German-language Slavic book series appeared from 1968 and comprised 25 volumes.

Publications

  • Leopold Kretzenbacher : Windradl and Klapotetz , (1975)
  • Anton Novačan: Hermann von Cilley, drama in five acts (1977)

literature

  • Horst Glassl: In memory of Rudolf Trofenik (April 15, 1911 - December 7, 1991) . In: Ungarn-Jahrbuch 20 (1992), pp. 295–296.

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personal data
SURNAME Trofenik, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav or German publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Maribor
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1991
Place of death Munich