Arhivski vjesnik, Vol. 62 No. 1, 2019.
Pregledni rad
https://doi.org/10.36506/av.62.7
Several 19th-Century Citizens of Karlovac and Their Family Ties
Goranka Kreačič
Sažetak
As a trade centre Karlovac drew from the last quarter of the 18th century individuals from various parts of the Habsburg Monarchy, whose work contributed to the town’s development. Among many newcomers were also Alojz Duquenois, a gingerbread man and wax-chandler from Carniola, Ivan Reichherzer from Varaždin and the composer Franz Zihak from Moravia. The key personality in this article is Alojz Duquenois (1765-1846), a gingerbread man, wax-chandler, town councillor, benefactor and patron of the arts who came as a settler from Carniola and already during his lifetime became an urban legend. He witnessed and participated in the most important events in town’s history of the first half of the 19th century. He became etched in the collective memory and is particularly associated with the period of French administration in Karlovac. The second individual is Ivan Reichherzer (1802-1872), from the family of gingerbread men of Varaždin, who as a journeyman arrived in Karlovac to the already well known master craftsman Alojz Duquenois and later married his only heir, Katarina Zihak/Czihak, half-sister of Duquenois’ second wife. After he was ‘retired’ in the 1830is, Duqenois dedicated himself solely town affairs. Hence, Reichherzer took over his craft. The sources from the mid-19th century mention him as the owner of several real estates which he bought, refurbished, sold and rented; hence it can be said that he was a typical representative of the 19th century bourgeoisie. The third person is Franz Zihak (died in 1850), a city organist and also a versatile musician from Bohemia: he was able to conduct and play six musical instruments (clarinet, fagot, horn, oboe, flute and violin). He was also a composer and a teacher in the first musical school in the town, which is why the music historians consider him to be the founder of the musical professionalism in Karlovac. Both the wife and the daughter of Ivan Reichherzer, Katarina nee Zihak and Katarina Reichherzer, were representatives of bourgeoisie, who were not only rich brides, but also both of them obtained decent education that was unusually high for that period i.e. they were teachers. Special attention was given to the central person, whose origin and marriage connected to musical families of the 19th century i.e. Zihak and Wiesner Livadić. That person was Katarina Reichherzer, daughter of Ivan Reichherzer and Katarina Zihak, granddaughter of Franz Zihak, wife of the solicitor and opera singer Kamila Wiesner and daughter-in-law of the composer Ferdo Wiesner Livadić. She was also the mother of the Croatian writer Branimir Livadić and grandmother of the Croatian painter Kamilo Tompa. All those family ties were presented in order to show the interweaving and interrelation of the better known Croatian bourgeoisie families in the 19th century, as well as the fact that many settled foreigners joined the 19th-century Croatian national revival movement, regardless of their ethnic origin.
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21.12.2019.
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