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RAZPRAVE, [TUDIJE
Die Archivalien enthalten viele weitere Daten zur protestantischen Sepul-
kralkultur. Unter anderen hat sich auch eine Darstellung eines gemalten Epi-
taphes aus der ehemaligen Pfarrkirche in Radlje mit komplexer reformato-
rischer Ikonographie erhalten. Weitere Recherchen würden das Bild der slowe-
nischen Reformation sicher noch bereichern.
UDC 929.52 Khisl:284.1(497.12)”14/16"
Barbara Žabota
The Khisl family during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation
In the second quarter of the 16th century the Khisl family belonged to the
bourgeois-merchant class but later, due to the merits of individual members,
gained aristocratic status – at the end of the 1580s its members acquired the
title of barons, and at the beginning of the 17th century that of counts. As early
adherents of Protestantism, the Khisls strengthened the reputation and inf lu-
ence of Protestantism in Slovenia. The founder of this Carniolan family is con-
sidered to be Vid (Veit) Khisl, who was accepted among the Ljubljana bourgeoi-
sie in 1522, in the following years became a town councillor, and was several
times mayor of Ljubljana between 1537 and 1547, the year of his death. He
became wealthy as a merchant and entrepreneur (among other things he owned
a glassworks in Novo mesto). He was a lover of music and was praised as such
by Primož Trubar. The best-known of his children was his son Janez (Hans) (c.
1530–1593), whose achievements included being a member of the Provincial
Assembly, an imperial councillor, the administrator of the Carniolan province,
president of the Provincial Lawcourt and president of the Inner Austrian court
chamber. With due foresight he bought land and in 1557 built a family castle
at Fužine. He supported science and art as well as Slovene Protestant litera-
ture, Trubar and Dalmatin. As administrator of the Carniolan province he pub-
lished the first (known) official document in Slovene. As a Protestant he also
sought marriage partners for his children among the Protestant aristocracy
(the Egkh and Moscon families). His fervour was maintained by his son Jurij
(Georg) (died in 1605), who was educated in Tübingen and Padua. He was also
provincial administrator and held other high offices within Carniola. He was
one of the pillars of the Protestant church and the leader of the Lutheran ma-
jority in the Provincial Assembly. Inheriting a talent for music and literature,
he himself wrote in Latin and German a biography of his friend Herbard
Auersperg (of Turjak), also a Protestant, who fell in battle against the Turks in
1575. His elder brother Vid was a soldier and indeed a military commander in
Karlovac and the military frontier. In his late years (he died in 1609) he probably
became a Roman Catholic, as also did another brother Janez Jakob (1565–1637),
262
Die Archivalien enthalten viele weitere Daten zur protestantischen Sepul-
kralkultur. Unter anderen hat sich auch eine Darstellung eines gemalten Epi-
taphes aus der ehemaligen Pfarrkirche in Radlje mit komplexer reformato-
rischer Ikonographie erhalten. Weitere Recherchen würden das Bild der slowe-
nischen Reformation sicher noch bereichern.
UDC 929.52 Khisl:284.1(497.12)”14/16"
Barbara Žabota
The Khisl family during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation
In the second quarter of the 16th century the Khisl family belonged to the
bourgeois-merchant class but later, due to the merits of individual members,
gained aristocratic status – at the end of the 1580s its members acquired the
title of barons, and at the beginning of the 17th century that of counts. As early
adherents of Protestantism, the Khisls strengthened the reputation and inf lu-
ence of Protestantism in Slovenia. The founder of this Carniolan family is con-
sidered to be Vid (Veit) Khisl, who was accepted among the Ljubljana bourgeoi-
sie in 1522, in the following years became a town councillor, and was several
times mayor of Ljubljana between 1537 and 1547, the year of his death. He
became wealthy as a merchant and entrepreneur (among other things he owned
a glassworks in Novo mesto). He was a lover of music and was praised as such
by Primož Trubar. The best-known of his children was his son Janez (Hans) (c.
1530–1593), whose achievements included being a member of the Provincial
Assembly, an imperial councillor, the administrator of the Carniolan province,
president of the Provincial Lawcourt and president of the Inner Austrian court
chamber. With due foresight he bought land and in 1557 built a family castle
at Fužine. He supported science and art as well as Slovene Protestant litera-
ture, Trubar and Dalmatin. As administrator of the Carniolan province he pub-
lished the first (known) official document in Slovene. As a Protestant he also
sought marriage partners for his children among the Protestant aristocracy
(the Egkh and Moscon families). His fervour was maintained by his son Jurij
(Georg) (died in 1605), who was educated in Tübingen and Padua. He was also
provincial administrator and held other high offices within Carniola. He was
one of the pillars of the Protestant church and the leader of the Lutheran ma-
jority in the Provincial Assembly. Inheriting a talent for music and literature,
he himself wrote in Latin and German a biography of his friend Herbard
Auersperg (of Turjak), also a Protestant, who fell in battle against the Turks in
1575. His elder brother Vid was a soldier and indeed a military commander in
Karlovac and the military frontier. In his late years (he died in 1609) he probably
became a Roman Catholic, as also did another brother Janez Jakob (1565–1637),
262
