Jožef Krajnc

During the March Revolution, Krajnc served as a member of the Austrian Reichstag from 1848 to 1849, filling in for Vinzenz Gurnigg who did not accept his term.

After his chair was dissolved in 1854, he worked for a short time as a consultant to the Austrian ministry of finances in Laibach before receiving a teaching position for civil, business, and exchange law at the Handelsakademie in Hermannstadt in 1855.

The climate at the University of Prague was dominated and severely poisoned by deep animosities between German-Austrians and Czechs, both among teaching staff as well as among students.

A group of German-speaking students, among their leaders Fritz Mauthner, caused his inaugural lecture to end in riots.

A note of protest against Krajnc's appointment was written by German-Austrian students at the University's faculty of law and directed to the Austrian Ministry of Education, but to no avail.