Johannes Carl (Karl) Barolin

"Barolin, Johannes Carl, protok. Kaufmann en gros, Wien VII., Apollogasse 8, geb. 30 IX 1857 Laibach [Ljubljana, Slovenia], besuchte d. Realschule u. d. Handelsschule Wien."

Listed in Wiener Grossbürgertum im Ersten Weltkrieg, p. 213, as "Großindustrieller."

From De Maconnieke Encyclopedie zoekt: Barolin, Johannes C. österreichischer Pazifist, geb. 1857 in Laibach veröffentlichte zahlreiche, auf sozialpolitische pädagogische Reformen abzielende und der Friedensidee dienende Schriften, Anreger einer "altruistischen Weltorganisation," Mitglied der Loge "Eintracht" in Wien, ist Ehrenmitglied der Großloge und Ehren Groß kommandeur des Obersten Rates des Schottischen Ritus von Österreich (Lennhoff, Posner, Binder Intern. Freimaurer Lexikon).

"... Austrian pacifist, born 1857 in Laibach {Ljubljana}. Published numerous works dealing with socio-political reforms and the concept of peace, he aspired to an ideal of "altruistic world organisation". Member of the "Eintracht" Masonic Lodge in Vienna, honorary member of the Grand Lodge and honorary Grand Commander of the High Council of the Scottish Rites of Austria..."

As a Freemason and pacifist he was associated with world peace activist Alfred Hermann Fried (1864-1921), a co-winner of the 1911 Nobel Peace Prize.

Johannes C. Barolin appears in Jahresbericht der K.K. Staats-Oberrealschule in Laibach für das Schuljahr 1872, p. 41 (III Klasse). The book catalogs the school's offerings in Physics and Chemistry, and lists all the students and faculty for 1872.

Entry in Wer ist wer?: Das Deutsche Who's Who, Volume 3, 1908, lists numerous publications, at least one of which (Die Teilung der Erde, 1904) can be found online and occasionally via rare book dealers. One dealer says of it, "Johannes C. Barolin describes in this book the division of the earth into ten economic zones. A very interesting work of utopian nonfiction."

Barolin was a delegate to the 13th Universal Peace Congress held at Boston, October 3-9, 1904.

Karl Barolin appears in the Directory of Freemasons for 1907-08.

Linking pacifism with educational reform, in 1909 he published Der Schulstaat: Vorschläge zur Völkerversöhnung und Herbeiführung eines dauernden Friedens durch die Schule, (Wien: W. Braumüller. 1909): "the School State: Proposals for international reconciliation and bringing about lasting peace through school[ing]."

In 1914 he published a proposal for time-keeping reform based on the decimal system, entitled Der Hundertstundentag: Vorschlag zu einer Zeitreform unter Zugrundelegung des Dezimalsystems, im Anschluss an ein analoges Bogen- und Längenmass. Before that, cities still had their own local sun-time, a system that was rendered obsolete by the advent of speedy railway connections. Because of the expansion of the telegraph and railway networks time had to be unified in some way and many proposals were put forward: the French wanted 24 timezones with the Paris meridian as zero point, The Germans wanted 24 timezones with Berlin as zeropoint, and the British wanted 24 timezones with Greenwich as zeropoint. (The idea of decimal time-keeping had circulated widely during the French Revolution.) Topics in Barolin's A Day with a Hundred Hours included "The decimal system; On the history of time-sharing, Calendar, Date; Our proposal (The measure of time; the measure of length; the five-day week; the timepiece; the Olympics; a summertime reform." Johannes Carl Baroliin filed a patent on a watch design in September, 1914 (La Fédération horlogère suisse, July 14, 1915, p. 335).

He was a proponent of "the Little Entente," "the establishment of a Danube Federation as an option to the economic recovery of Austria" [post-WW I], in Donauföderation: Für und wieder (Wien u. Leipzig, Wilhelm Braumüller, 1926). He (and other writers) warned that lack of development opportunity in Vienna would eventually lead to annexation to Germany.

His sisters' deaths in Ljubljana:

1. Laibacher Tagblatt, Berstorbene, Dez. 15, 1867, p. 4: "Der 14 Dezember, dem Herrn Anton Barolin, Eisenbahnoberkonduktor, seine Tochter Rosa, alt 22 jahre, in der Botanavorstadt Nr. 90 an der Lungentuberkulose." Nr. 103. Dienstag, 15. Dezember. — Morgen: Adelheid. 1868. [b. 1845].
2. Laibacher Zeitung, Berstorbene, Mar 24 1871, p. 4: "Den 20. März. Dem Herrn Anton Barolin, Ober-Conducteur, seine Tochter Anna Maria, alt 21 Jahre, in der St. Petersvorstadt Nr. 166 an der Lungenlähmung." [b. 1850].

See also BAROLIN at WikiTree.

Buried Zentralfriedhof, Wien (www.friedhoefewien.at):

Burial details courtesy of www.friedhoefewien.at

• Titel
• Vorname: Hans Karl
• Nachname: Barolin
• Künstlername
• Geburtsdatum
• Lebensalter: 77
• Sterbedatum
• Bestattungsdatum: 13.10.1934
• Grab/ Friedhof: Wiener ZentralfriedhofW
• Gruppe: 42 Gruppe Erweiterung: C Reihe: 5 Nummer: 4
• Grabnutzungsrecht bis - auf Friedhofsdauer

Weiters in diesem Grab bestattet

• Name Geburtsdatum Lebensalter
• Barolin Hortensa
• Barolin Leopoldine b. 05.09.1867 79

N.B.

• Buried under the first name "Hans" ...
• in same grave as wife and one of children ...
• Leopoldine b. 05 Sept.1867-d. 15 July.1947
• Johannes Carl (as he is known in many citations from the early 1900s), b. 30 Sept 1857-d. 13 Oct. 1934 (see Handbuch der Friedensbewegung, Volume 1, p. 325-26 for his birthdate.)
• Daughter Hortensia b. 1888-d. 15 Nov 1889, Wien.

cf. Jahresbericht der k. k. Musterhaupt- und Lehrerbildungsschule zu Laibach, 1868: Vierte Schulklasse. "Guten Fortgang hat gemacht ... Barolin Johann aus Laibach"

And now also cf. ...

Significant source of information from two family trees sketched out by Johann Carl BAROLIN on 5 June 1917 and 21 March 1928 in memory of father Anton BAROLIN and mother Theresia BAROLIN respectively. These precious documents are in family files.