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Andrew B. (Andreas Bernardus) Smolnikar
1795–1869
A restless 19th-century religious reformer and writer, he moved from the Habsburg lands to the United States and filled his books with grand plans for peace, spiritual renewal, and social change. His work offers a fascinating glimpse of utopian thinking in an age of revolutions.
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![Secret Enemies of True Republicanism Most important developments regarding the inner life of man and the spirit world, in order to abolish revolutions and wars and to establish permanent peace on earth, also: the plan for redemption of nations from monarchical and other oppresive [sic] speculations and for the introduction of the promised new era of harmony, truth and righteousness on the whole globe](https://listenly.io/api/img/6637f9dd829d50c265d73c0a/cover.jpg)
About the author
Born in 1795 in Kamnik, in the Habsburg lands, Andrew B. Smolnikar — also known as Andreas Bernardus or Andrej Bernard Smolnikar — was a former Roman Catholic priest, missionary, writer, and religious reformer. Records and library authorities consistently place his life from 1795 to 1869 and connect his various English, Latin, and Slovene name forms.
After leaving Europe, he became active in the United States, where he published works that mixed religion, politics, prophecy, and social reform. He is especially associated with ambitious appeals for permanent peace and a better social order, including Secret Enemies of True Republicanism and Most Important Extra, for the Present and the Future Generations.
Smolnikar is remembered today as an unusual Slovenian-born utopian thinker whose writings crossed boundaries between spiritual vision and political argument. Even when his ideas were highly eccentric, they show how seriously some 19th-century writers believed that moral and religious renewal could reshape public life.