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Janez Bleiweis (
19 November 1808 -
29 November 1881) was a
Slovene conservative politician and public figure. Already during his lifetime, he was called
father of the nation.
Bleiweis was born in a family of wealthy merchants in the
Carniolan town of
Kranj, then part of the
Austrian Empire. Since childhood, he was raised in a bilingual environment: he was fluent in both
Slovene and
German, as most of the members of the upper middle class in the
Slovene Lands at the time. He frequented the
lyceum in
Ljubljana and then enrolled to the
University of Vienna, where he studied medicine. After completing his studies, he worked as a professor of
veterinary medicine and
pathology in Ljubljana.
In 1843, Bleiweis launched the journal
Kmetijske in rokodelske novice ("Farmers' and Craftsmen's News"), which dealt with economic, as well as with cultural issues in the Slovene Lands. In the
spring of nations of 1848, he became involved in politics and supported the quest of
United Slovenia. At the
beginning of the constitutional period in the Austrian Empire, Bleiweis emerged as the leader of the
Slovene national movement. Already in the late
1850s, however, his politically conservatitive leadership was challenged by the younger generation of Slovene nationalists, known as
Young Slovenes, among whom were
Fran Levstik,
Josip Stritar and
Josip Jurčič. Bleiweis'es group, formed by
Lovro Toman and
Etbin Henrik Costa, was indentified as
Old Slovenes thereafter, although they themselves never accepted such name.
Bleiweis was a
Habsburg legitimist and follower of the
Austroslavist ideology. In politics, he followed the example of the
Czech leader
František Palacký who demanded autonomy for the Slavic peoples within the frame of a unified
Austrian Empire.
He died in Ljubljana and is buried in the
Navje cemetery in the
Bežigrad district.
Sources
- Jože Pogačnik, "Janez Bleiweis" in Slovenska misel: eseji o slovenstvu (Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, 1987), 437-438
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