Galician Language Issues before the Imperial Court. The significance of Article 19 (StGG 1867) for the elementary school system in Galicia, illustrated by the cities of Brody and Lviv around 1880

Abstract

In the multiethnic, multireligious and plurilingual Austro-Hungarian crownland of Galicia, the educational system was a constant field of conflicts. This pro-seminar paper examines two Galician single cases from 1880 that concerned the field of the elementary school system in the border city of Brody and the Galician capital city of Lwiw. The Jewish German-speaking population of Brody and the Ruthenian-speaking population of Lwiw both turned to the Supreme Court in order to install their mother tongue as classroom language, as it was granted in the famous Article 19.