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FRANZ VON PAULA HLADNIK

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Botanist and schoolmaster, b. 29 March, 1773, at Idria, Carniola, Austria; d. 25
November, 1844, at Laibach, Carniola. He was the son of a mining official; he
studied philosophy and theology and became a priest in 1796. His weak health
prevented his undertaking parish duties, and in 1796 he occupied the post of
Skriptor in the library of the Laibach Lyceum, but soon gave this up, and for
forty years devoted himself to teaching in the different schools of Laibach. In
1803 he was already director of the Normal School and in 1807 prefect of the
gymnasium, which post he held till his sight failed. In his last years he was
blind. Hladnik was a true teacher, who brought the gymnasium of Laibach to a
flourishing condition, for which he was honourably distinguished by the Emperor
Francis. During the French occupation, Hladnik was appointed professor of botany
and natural history in the Central School of Laibach, and presented with a piece
of land to be laid out for the cultivation of the flora of Carniola. It soon
contained 600 kinds of local plants.

Whilst occupied with his botanical garden, he was also delivering lectures on
botany and spent his holidays for thirty years in making researches in the
crownland of Carniola. These researches form his most important contributions to
science. He bequeathed his rich botanical collection to the Rudolfinum Public
Museum, founded in Laibach in 1831. The museum owes him much and contains his
portrait, painted by A. von Hermannsthal. Among Hladnik's pupils was Skofitz,
the founder of the "Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift", now in its sixtieth year of
publication. Hladnik discovered several new kinds of plants and certain genera
have been named after him. He did not publish any scientific works; his
manuscripts now in possession of the Carniola Historical Society are written in
Latin, German, French, and Slavonian, proving the learning and industry of the
author. They treat of ascetic theology, history, botany, and mineralogy.

SOURCES

VON WURZBACH, Biogr. Lexikon des Kaisertums Oesterreich, IX (Vienna, 1863);
Oesterr. Botan. Zeitschrift, XXV (Vienna, 1875); Botanik u. Zoologie in
Oesterreich, (Vienna, 1901); DALLA TORRE AND HARMS, Genera Siphonogamarum
(Leipzig, 1900-7).

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APA citation. Rompel, J. (1910). Franz von Paula Hladnik. In The Catholic
Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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MLA citation. Rompel, Josef. "Franz von Paula Hladnik." The Catholic
Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07380b.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Bobie Jo M. Bilz.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. June 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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