The building in which the "Consular Academy" (successor organization of the "K.k. Academy for Oriental Languages") resided, now the seat of the US Embassy.
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The Kaiserlich-königliche Akademie für Orientalische Sprachen (also known as Oriental Academy) was founded in 1754 by Empress Maria Theresa in Vienna.
As early as 1674, on the orders of the Emperor, teaching in Turkish and Arabic began in Vienna. The Ottoman wars in Europe, but also the economic and cultural exchange had made interpreters necessary and the scientific interest in the Orient awakened.
In 1754 Empress Maria Theresa founded the Imperial Royal Academy for Oriental Languages at the suggestion of Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg, where Oriental Studies were taught alongside Turkish, Persian and Arabic. Most students entered the diplomatic service, where they were called "language youths" because of their age.
At the end of the 19th century, the Oriental Academy was reorganised and renamed the "Consular Academy"
In 1902 the academy moved to a new building in Boltzmanngasse
built by the architect Ludwig Baumann. After the Anschluss in 1938 the activities of the academy were strongly restricted by the new National Socialist rulers. From 1941 the building was used as a military hospital for the German army. In 1947 it was bought by the US government. Initially it served as a US embassy and from 1951 as Embassy of the United States, Vienna. The Academy reopened in 1964 as Diplomatic Academy of Vienna in the building of the Theresianum[1].
One of the most famous students was Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall.
The academy was originally commissioned for establishment by Empress Maria Theresa in 1754 as "The Oriental Academy", for the purpose of training young diplomats to represent the Habsburg Empire abroad. The school was renamed multiple times and reorganized over the centuries, and it eventually gained independent public institution status in 1996.[4] Given its roots, the Diplomatic Academy claims to be the oldest school of its kind, one that is dedicated to professional foreign affairs training.
[1] FOR THE CURIOUS
ABBAS HİLMİ II wasthe son of Egyptian Hidivi Tevfik Pasha. He was born on July 14, 1874 in Alexandria. He attended Theresianum school in Vienna with his brother Mehmed Ali for a while. While in Vienna, upon the death of his father on January 7, 1892, he was appointed to Egypt by the Ottoman State.
Orthodox Bilić Sava (dates unknown) Bilić Sava was elected in Herzegovina to the first session of parliament. The newspaper Stamboul rendered his name as Yelyij Efendi,5 but “Yelyij”does not look like a Bosnian Christian name unless we accept the reading “Jelić,” which is quite improbable. Bilić was a grocer in Mostar. According to the French consul’s assessment, he belonged to the few traders in Mostar who were at the same time landowners and had farmers on their estates, thanks to the disintegration of the domains of the famous Herzegovinian pasha, Ali Paşa Rizvanbegović (17831851). Traveling from time to time to Triest for the sugar and coffee trade, he was also a stockbrocker. Very careful in his political position, he feared the Muslims but disliked any rapprochement with Montenegro or Serbia, mostly because he profited from the Ottoman régime. He spoke Turkish but was not literate in this language. After the Austro-Hungarian occupation, in the 1880s, Bilić was Mostar’s vicemayor and tried to juggle loyalty to the new authorities with leadership in Orthodox political opposition against them. For example, as president of the Mostar Orthodox parish, he signed a protest against the implementation of the AustroHungarian conscription in Bosnia-Herzegovina on December 10, 1881, but was not sentenced to exile or imprisonment; and two years later, while vice-mayor, he begged for his son Vladislav to receive admission to Vienna’s famous Theresianum. He was partly unsuccessful, as his son only attended Löwenberg boarding school, a less famous establishment of the Monarchy for the sons of high-ranking representatives. At the same time, he was organizing demonstrations against AustroHungaria.
Sources CADN, Series Constantinople ambassade, D, Mostar, vol. 2, Louis Dozon to the Ambassade no. 67: Mostar, January 30, 1877. ABH GFM BH 1883/425, 1883/5173, 1883/6225 and 1883/6795. Vladimir Ćorović, “Mostar i njegova srpska pravolsavna opština [first 1933],” in Mostar (Banja Luka/Beograd: Glas srpski/Ars libri, 1999). 5
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