Franc Ferk and the Importance of His Museological and Ethnographic Activities for Štajersko

Abstract

Novembra leta 2005 je minilo 80 let od smrti profesorja Franca Ferka, zgodovinarja in germanista. V času svojega življenja je ustvaril pomembne arheološke zbirke, ki jih je podaril muzejskim društvom in muzejem na Štajerskem in s tem spodbudil ustanovitev muzeja v Celju (1882), na Ptuju (1893) in v Mariboru (1903). Poleg numizmatike in arheologije se je ukvarjal tudi z narodopisnim delom. Njegovo narodopisno gradivo je deloma popisal dr. Niko Kuret. Kot »Ferkov arhiv« ga hrani Inštitut za slovensko narodopisje ZRC SAZU.

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November 2005 marked eight decades since the death of historian and germanist Franc Ferk. In the course of his productive life, Ferk created several prominent archaeological collections, which he donated to museum societies and museums in Štajersko; these collections formed the basis for the formation of the museum in Celje (1882), the one in Ptuj (1893), and the museum in Maribor (1903). Beside archaeology and numismatics, Ferk was very interested in ethnographic work. A part of his ethnographic collection, now known as the “Ferk archives”, had been examined and recorded by ethnologist Niko Kuret. This material is presently kept at the Institute of Slovenian Ethnology SRC of the SASA.