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440 UDK 929Praprotnik F. 1.01 Izvirni znanstveni članek Prejeto: 30. 9. 2015 Natalija Žižić* Učitelj Franc Praprotnik, oče mozirskega sadjarstva The teacher Franc Praprotnik: the father of fruit growing in Mozirje Izvleček Prispevek govori o šolniku in sadjarju Fran- cu Praprotniku (1849−1933), uglednemu predstavniku učiteljstva na prehodu iz 19. v 20. stoletje, ki je v obdobju po gospodarski krizi ter lakoti in pomanjkanju hrane (60. leta 19. stoletja) prepoznal vrednost novih kmetij- skih panog, še zlasti umnega sadjarstva. Vsaj za slovenski del Štajerske je bil odločilen pri uvajanju novega gledanja na gojenje sadnih vrst, vzgojil je celo vrsto dobrih kmetoval- cev – sadjarjev, v enajstih drevesnicah, ki jih je ustanovil v času svojega službovanja, pa vzgojil čez 50.000 sadik. S tem je pomemb- no prispeval k velikemu sadjarskemu slovesu, ki ga je mozirski okraj užival v začetku 20. stoletja, ko so se domača jabolka prodajala celo v Turčijo in Egipt, mozirsko sadje pa je dosegalo najvišje tržne cene. Sadjarsko društvo Franca Praprotnika Mozirje Leta 2003 je bilo v Mozirju ustanovljeno sadjarsko društvo, katerega namen je strokovno povezovanje ljubiteljev sonaravnega sadjarstva na širšem območju Zgornje Savinjske doline ter s pomočjo razstav domačega sadja, predavanj in prikazov prak- tičnega sadjarstva v različnih sadovnjakih razširiti zavest o pomenu starih kmečkih sadovnjakov kot pomembni sestavini podeželske kulturne dediščine. Pri tem je bila Abstract The paper discusses the educator and fruit- grower Franc Praprotnik (1849—1933), an eminent representative of the teaching pro- fession at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, who realized the value of the new and nascent agricultural fields in Slovenia following the economic crisis and the ensuing food crisis and famine in the 1860s - particularly fruit-growing. By introduc- ing a new approach to the cultivation of fruit tree sortiments his influence was decisive for the Slovenian part of Styria at the least. He personally educated a large number of good farmers and fruit growers and cultivated over 50,000 seedlings in the eleven tree nurseries he founded during his professional career. His work contributed greatly to the acclaim reaped by the Mozirje region in the field of fruit-grow- ing at the beginning of the 20th century when the apples grown there were marketed as far as Turkey and Egypt, and the fruits grown in the region were sold at top market prices. * Natalija Žižić, univ. dipl. zgodovinarka in sociologinja kulture, sodelavka SŠM, e-pošta: natalijazizic@gmail.com