The media landscape of the Habsburg Monarchy in the pre-March period was relatively meagre. In Carniola and other Austrian crownlands with a Slovenian population, the opportunities for literary ...development were limited: this is well evidenced by the ban on the publication of
Slavinja
in mid-1820 as well as by the many conflicts
Krajnska čbelica
(‘The Carniolan Bee’) had with censorship in the early 1830s. The modesty of literary activity in Slovenia at this time is often related to the low level of education and literacy among the population, discontinuity in the development of literary culture, and the general underdevelopment of the emerging Slovenian literary and media systems. However, imperial censorship also decisively contributed to this state of affairs. This article therefore outlines the functioning of the pre-March censorship apparatus at the state and local levels, showing how the censorship office in Vienna (headed by the count Josef Sedlnitzky) systematically blocked attempts to establish Slovenian-language periodicals (
Slavinja
,
Slovenske novice
‘Slovenian News’ with its supplement
Zora
‘The Dawn’, and
Ilirske novice
‘Illyrian News’ with its supplement
Ilirski Merkur
‘The Illyrian Mercury’) and how local factors were involved in these processes. It is argued that the power to ban a newspaper had a much stronger impact on the Slovenian press than the activities of local or state censorship. In particular, the long struggle to establish
Kmetijske in rokodelske novice
(‘Agricultural and Handicraft News’) between 1838 and 1843 testifies to the early tendency of the imperial censorship apparatus to block the respective national(ist) agendas.
Bleiweisov spomenik iz tonalita z obeliskom je izdelalo graško kamnoseško podjetje Grein. Podstavek je iz domačega kamna izdelal ljubljanski kamnosek Vinko Čamernik. Okoli spomenika je bila ograja ...iz kovanega železa. Janez Bleiweis, ki se je rodil 1808 v Kranju in umrl 1881 v Ljubljani, je imel mnogo funkcij in bil precej izobražen: bil je doktor medicine, magister porodništva in veterinar, postavil je temelje slovenskega veterinarstva. Bil je tudi aktiven politik, vodilna osebnost političnega tabora staroslovencev. Na nagrobnem spomeniku je nevedenih polno njegovih funkcij in častnih naslovov: tako je bil častni meščan Ljubljane ter drugih mest in trgov, častni občan številnih občin in član mnogih učenih društev, deželni poslanec, tajnik cesarsko kraljeve kmetijske družbe, urednik Kmetijskih in rokodelskih novic, predsednik Matice Slovenske in ljubljanske čitalnice, vitez raznih redov in druge funkcije. Na podstavku je napis: Edino, kar nas teši v bolesti, je zavest, da ves narod slovenski z nami vred plače na Tvojej gomili in da bodeš živel večno v srcu njegovem. (Povzeto po: M. Piškur, S. Žitko: Ljubljansko Navje. Ljubljana, 1997.)
Bil je slovenski politik, publicist, pionir slovenskega časnikarstva in veterinarstva, tajnik Kmetijske družbe, poslanec kranjskega deželnega zbora v letih 1861–1880, predsednik Slovenske matice. ...Leta 1843 je ustanovil časnik Kmetijske in rokodelske novice. Ob svoji sedemdesetletnici 19. novembra 1878 je postal ”oče naroda”. Cesar Franc Jožef I. mu je leta 1881 podelil viteški naziv in grb ”plemeniti Trsteniški”. Častni član Narodne čitalnice v Kranju je postal leta 1878.
