Peter Pavel Glavar's rules for the school of horticulture and bee keeping in Lanšprež in the year 1781

Abstract

Peter Pavel Glavar has published his rules for the school of horticulture in Lanšprež as an annex to his paper on advancement of bee keeping in Carniola »Predlog za dvig čebelarstva na Kranjskem«) which was on December 17, 1781 submitted to the Carniolan Agricultural Society. The rules include: plan for regulation of the status of the state teacher of apiculture, regulation for the apprentices, plan for the general api- and horticulture school under auspices of estate Lanšprež and learning plan for the curator. The rules for the school of apiculture, as formulated by Glavar, were not found before. Glavar has among other regulations also defined that teaching should be carried out in local (Slovene) language, bee keeping should be performed in joint apiaries and bee keeping measures should be taken after inspection of bee hives. The rules were not accepted nor approved formally, due to the court decret on abolition of public teachers for apiculture, published on October 31, 1781. Glavar opened the school of apiculture in Lanšprež in 1781.