Jožko Šavli

Jožef " Jožko " Šavli ( born March 22, 1943 in Tolmino, Italy, † March 11, 2011 in Gorizia, Italy ) was a Slovene teachers ( " professore " ) for commercial subjects at a school in Gorizia, the sensational theories for the past the Slovenian nation and language developed.

Life

After matriculation examination at a trade high school in 1962 and after graduating from the University of Ljubljana in 1967 he continued after a brief teaching career continued his studies in Vienna at the former World Trade University, where he received his doctorate in 1975 with a dissertation on the economic development of the Lower Austrian district. He then returned to his teaching career as a teacher in the economic curriculum subject in Gorizia (Gorizia / Gorica ) back in Italy. Šavli comes from a rural area on the Isonzo ( Soča the Slovenian ) in the old coastal land that has always been a meeting place of peoples and cultures in history. The Slovenian, Italian and German culture have been here constantly in touch. This Šavli was excited since his student days to the study of the history, nomenclature and cultural structure in the eastern Alps region.

Black Panther icon

In the 1980s, " reconstructed " Šavli the heraldic emblem of the black panther as a symbol Karantanija. Several aristocratic families, which, as he claims, comes from the old Karantania should have led a panther in its coat of arms. He claims to have discovered several documents and sources that mention a black panther as an ancient symbol of Carinthia and says further, also in silver panther in the coat of arms of Styria recognize the black panther. After 1991, there were several initiatives to install the black panther as Slovenian coat of arms.

Work

His historical and ethnographic studies have been published www.carantha.net primarily in glass Korotana (Vienna) in the Slovene language, but also in various other magazines of Trieste, Ljubljana / Laibach and Carinthia as well as on the internet substantiated by the website.

Public awareness reached Šavli with the study, " Our ancestors - the Veneti ." Together with Matej Bor he grabbed it on the ancient Veneti theory, according to which the Slovenes are descended, as descendants of the ancient Veneti Carantanians of ethnically and therefore were not the descendants of were not made until the 6th century Slavic migration to the Balkans.

On the other hand, concluded Šavli that the Slavs Europe would have settled far earlier than is mentioned in writing. This view is also in his thesis on the origin of the Frankish foreign name, contact that may be inferred from the name of the originally settled along the Vistula and subjugated by the Ostrogoths culture ( Vistula ) Veneti. From Venedae in fact the word Contact deduce, with the neighboring Slavs were called Windische in the Middle Ages in many German-speaking areas.

In his publications on Karantania Šavli saw the Carantanians state as early political term in Central Europe, and he presented his medieval " Grand Duchy Karantania / Carinthia " as successful predecessor idea of Central European, national, cross-border " Alps Adriatic Region " within the framework of the European Union. In his idea of Carinthia four language groups would coexist peacefully coexists political: Slavic and " German " language Carantanians, the Neo-Latin and the Romance -speaking Friuli ( Italy ) Veneti. A coexistence of this language or ethnic groups have shown in a time when in Europe the only affiliation to Christianity was crucial not a problem. This historical perspective on Karantania is atypical for both the German National Carinthian side as well as the pan-Slavic perspective on the Slovenian side. However, serious doubts of the scientific side that the power field of Carantanian princes ever extended over the Karawanken south to Upper Carniola from the 6th century to 9th century. Only in the south-east Karantania probably extends to the territory of the former Lower Styria, an assumption that 2003 through the discovery of the remains of walls of the oldest church building from the Carolingian period to probably karantanischem field in the area of ​​St. George's Church of Place, now a district of Windischgraz / Slovenj Gradec is substantiated.

How Šavlis already Venetertheorie and Karantanentheorie were all his subsequent theories, such as the possible relationship of Slovenes and Sweden or the derivative of the " Slavs " name ( " Slovani " ) by the name of " Sloveneti ", which in turn shortened to " Veneti " was not taken seriously Šavlis anger of the Slovenian professional world, but sparked them considerable enthusiasm in the population, which the eminent Slovenian historian Bogo Count Auer (1916-1995) led to the conclusion: "Nowhere else in the world can find a similar historiographical Ekzentrizitäten such wide coverage as with the Slovenes. "Particularly great response they found in exile Slovenian circles in Australia, South and North America, where they were enthusiastically discussed and re-released, whereupon such publications Šavli served again as confirmation. He died a few days before his 68th birthday in Gorizia.

Writings

• Jožko Šavli, Matej Bor: Our ancestors - the Veneti. Edited by Ivan Tomažič. Vienna, 1988, ISBN 3-85013-110-6
• Jožko Šavli, Karantanija a predecessor of Central Europe Historia magistra vitae est. In: Time document " The Common Life" 70 years after the plebiscite in Carinthia (as of April 2, 2008 )
• Jožko Šavli: The Central Europe as a common heritage of history in spiritual and cultural importance. Carantha History of Slovenia Carantania carantha.net,
• Jožko Šavli Slovenska znamenja ( Slovenian characters). Založba ( publisher) Humar, Gorizia / Bilje 1994 [ There are in the book also German -language excerpts and summaries (eg: Fürstenstein, Duke chair). Passages from the relevant Slovene ].
• Jožko Šavli: Karantanija. Nova Gorica, 2007.
• Jožko Šavli Slovenska država Karantanija ( The Slovenian State Karantania ). Ljubljana, 1990, ISBN 86-7089-001-1
• Jožko Šavli: Karantanski klobuk najpristnejši slovenski simbol ( The karantanische Hat, the most distinctive symbol of Slovenia ). Glass Korotana ( voice of Korotan ), 1981, 7, 7-37.
• Jožko Šavli: Crni panter - najstarejši karantanski grb ( The Black Panther - the oldest coat of arms karantanische ). Glass Korotana, 1981, 7, 38-68.
• Jožko Šavli: Lipa drevo življenja ( Linde, the tree of life). Glass Korotana, 1982, 8, 5-50.
• Jožko Šavli: Veneti Naši predniki davni? ( The Veneti, our ancestors? ). Glass Korotana, 1985, 10, 5-50.
• Jožko Šavli: Knežji came ( The Prince of stone and its symbolism ) in njegova Simbolika. Glass Korotana, 1986, 11, 4-51.
• Jožko Šavli: Vojvodski stol ( The Duke chair). Glass Korotana, 1987, 12, 7-89.
• Jožko Šavli Slovenska država Karantanija ( The Slovenian State Karantania ) Založba Lipa, Koper ( Koper ). Editiones Veneti, Vienna; Karantanija, Ljubljana 1990.