Anton Melik
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Anton Melik (January 1, 1890 – June 8, 1966) was a Slovene geographer.
Biography
Melik was born in the village of
In 1927 he received his PhD from the Faculty of Arts with his
In 1935–1936, the publishing house
Between 1947 and 1960, Melik was head of the Department of Geography at the Faculty of Arts. Between 1948 and 1966, he was head of the Geographical Institute of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Between 1946/1947 and 1949/1950, he was chancellor of the University of Ljubljana, and he served twice as dean of the Faculty of Arts in 1940/1941 and 1945/1946. He retired in 1966. He died in Ljubljana.
In 1976, the Geographical Institute of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, founded in 1946, was renamed the Anton Melik Geographical Institute in his honor.
Family
His two brothers Franc Melik (born 1885), and Ivan Melik (born 1894) were killed in a grove known as Kosler's Thicket (
For his work on the geography of Slovenia and Yugoslavia, Melik received the Prešeren Award in 1947, 1949, and 1951. His son, Vasilij Melik, was a historian; his two other sons, Anton (1918) and Andrej (1927–1930), died as children.
Sources
- Who was Anton Melik
- Ivan Gams, William Morris Davis, Anton Melik, slemenski nivoji in pobočni procesi v Sloveniji / William Morris Davis, Anton Melik, Level Top Ridges and Slope Processes in Slovenia, Geografski zbornik 41 (2001).
- Primož Jakopin, Zbornik ob 80-letnici FF, 1919-1999, Oddelek za geografijo (Collection Marking the 80th Anniversary of the Faculty of Arts, 1919-1999, Department of Geography).
References
- ^ "Grave of Franc Melik". Archived from the original on 2014-03-16. Retrieved 2014-03-16.
External links
Media related to Anton Melik at Wikimedia Commons
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