Peter Pavel Glavar
Peter Pavel Glavar (2 May 1721 – 24 January 1784) was a Carniolan Roman Catholic priest, beekeeper, writer, and businessman.
Glavar was born in Ljubljana and was an illegitimate and abandoned child of the Maltese noble Pietro Giacomo de Testaferrata and of a local servant.[1][2] He was raised in Vopovlje in northern Carniola.[1] As he was a quick learner, he went to study for a priest to Ljubljana and about 1738 to Graz, where he became a master of liberal arts (Latin: magister artium liberalium).[2] There he also got acquainted with economic theories of French physiocrats. His education was wide and he was fluent in several European languages.[1]
Glavar returned to Carniola around 1743.[2] He settled in Komenda in the northern Carniola, where he established a school in 1751, and erected a benefice building with a library in 1752.[3] The library still stands and comprises around 2000 books from a multitude of fields of science and arts.[1][3] A mighty lime tree in Komenda was presumably planted by Glavar in 1748 and has been named after him.[4] Glavar collaborated with artists and ordered Franc Jelovšek to paint the beneficiary house and the local church.[3] From 1754 until 1760,[5] he edited the first Slovene-language parish family book, writing the data about the inhabitants of Komenda.[1] In 1761–66, he erected a High-Baroque church of St. Anne in Tunjice.[6]
In 1766, Glavar bought Lanšprež Castle (German: Landspreis) in Gomila near Mirna in the central Carniola,[2] where he kept an apiary with about 200 quite profitable hives.[1] He also established a beekeeping school there and wrote several texts on beekeeping, including Pogovor o čebelnih rojih (Discussion About Bee Swarms) from 1776–78, which was the first Slovene-language scholarly text, but was lost and was published only in 1976.[7] He was a supporter of poor students.[1] He died at Lanšprež Castle aged 62 years. His assets were distributed among the poor and used for the establishment of Glavar Hospital in Komenda in 1804.[1]
In 2006, a TV-documentary was produced about Peter Pavel Glavar.[3]
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