Knafelj Foundation, Vienna

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Knafljeva ustanova
Seilerstätte 2, AT-1010 Wien
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Knafelj Foundation was established in 1676 as an institution with the aim to financially help students from Carniola with their studies in Vienna, the Central European's most important university city. Today, the Foundation with an impressive history still represents an important part of the Slovene cultural heritage with the on-going funding of the accommodation in Vienna for postgraduate students coming from Slovenia.


Background

The Foundation is named after its founder Luka Knafelj (1621–1671), a Carniola-born priest, who left his money and fortune for Carniolan students coming to study in Vienna where he also worked and died. Until the break-up of Austria-Hungary in 1918, more than 1200 students received the funding, including the prominent poet France Prešeren and many others.

In the beginning the Foundation was run by the consortium at the University of Vienna, in 1995 the legal basis of the institution transformed into a private foundation, run by a managing commitee comprised out of members from University of Ljubljana, Mohorjeva družba from Klagenfurt and Anton Levstek as a trustee.

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