Avguštin Stegenšek

Who was Avguštin Stegenšek?

Avguštin Stegenšek Ph. D. was a Slovene theologian, philosopher and art historian.

After his graduation of theology, he left for Rome to study archaeology and art history. Later, he was awarded a doctor's degree of philosophy sciences at the university of Graz in 1906. He took part in the Historic Society for Slovene Styria, founded 1906, and was appointed honorary conservator in Styria by Committee for the protection of monuments in Vienna. Stegenšek was the pioneer of the monumental topography on the territory of Slovenia. He framed the monumental work »Cerkveni spomeniki lavantinske škofije«, which included two issues »Dekanija Gornji Grad« and Konjiška Dekanija got up by his own photographs and drawings as well edited and published on his own.

Stegenšek died in Maribor in 1920.