Boris Furlan

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Boris Furlan (10 November 1894 – 10 June 1957)

Yugoslav Communist authorities at the Nagode Trial
.

Early life and career

He was born in a middle class

Berlitz language school, where he was a pupil of the Irish novelist James Joyce.[4][5] After finishing the German language State gymnasium in Trieste in 1913, he went to study law at the University of Paris.[6] After the break of World War I, he returned to Austria-Hungary, and enrolled in the University of Vienna. He finished his studies at the University of Bologna after the end of World War I. In 1920, he obtained a PhD from the University of Zagreb
.

In 1920, Furlan returned to his home city of Trieste, which had become a part of the

Fascist Italianization was already in full advance, he managed to get a permit to publish a Slovene-language legal journal named Pravni vestnik (The Legal Herald), in which both Furlan and Wilfan published numerous text on legal philosophy and legal theory.[7] The journal was abolished in 1928, as one of the last Slovene-language and Croat-language media prohibited by the Fascist regime. Between 1928 and 1930, Furlan worked as political advisor to Wilfan, who became one of the leaders of the Congress of European Nationalities.[8]

In 1930, he escaped to the

Fascist persecution. [citation needed] In 1931, he opened a law practice in Ljubljana, and in 1936 he became a professor of sociology of law at the University of Ljubljana. [citation needed
]

Exile during World War II

In late March 1941, when Yugoslavia signed the

liberal conservative Slovenian émigré politicians Izidor Cankar and Franc Snoj, Furlan propagated for the Yugoslav and Slovene cause. In 1942, he published a brochure titled Fighting Yugoslavia: The Struggle of the Slovenes, in which he articulated, among other, the Slovenian claims for the annexation of his native Julian March region to Yugoslavia. [citation needed
]

In 1943, he moved to London, where he served as Minister of Education in the

Draža Mihajlović, but after early 1944, he became supportive of Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslav Partisans. [citation needed
]

After the Yugoslav Prime Minister

government in exile for the Radio London. In summer 1944, he had several speeches directed to the members of the collaborationist Slovene Home Guard, urging them to join forces with the partisan forces. One of his speeches, titled A Clear Word from London was printed on leaflets which were dropped by Allied airplanes over Slovenia. In Autumn 1944, Furlan replaced Izidor Cankar as Minister for Culture and Telecommunication in the Provisional Government. In early 1945, he went to the liberated territories in southern Slovenia together with Franc Snoj. [citation needed
]

Under the Communist regime

After the end of World War II, he became the dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana. He tried to maintain a critical attitude towards the

Communist regime; among other things, he secretly translated George Orwell's Animal Farm.[10][11]

In June 1947, he was arrested and tried at the so-called

left-wing Slovene intellectuals, such as Črtomir Nagode, Ljubo Sirc, Angela Vode and Franc Snoj. Furlan was accused of having been member of a Masonic lodge in the 1930s, of having maintained contacts with the British intelligence since the late 1930s; the main accusation regarded his translation of Orwell's Animal Farm and his friendly relations with the American Red Cross official Jack Hoptner.[12]

In August 1947, he was sentenced to death.[13] The sentence was later commuted to 20 years of forced labour.[14] He was released on parole after four and a half years because of illness. [citation needed]

In 1952, he moved to the small

Yugoslav secret police, in which he suffered severe injuries.[16]

He died in Ljubljana[1] or Radovljica[2] at the age of 62 and was interred in the cemetery in the Vič neighborhood of Ljubljana.[3][17]

Essential bibliography

  • Pojem prava (The Concept of Law; Trieste, 1921)
  • Crocejeva teorija prava (Croce's Theory of Justice; Trieste, 1921)
  • Cankarjev Hlapec Jernej v luči pravne filozofije (Ivan Cankar's Short Story The Bailiff Yerney in the Light of Philosophy of Law; Trieste, 1926)
  • Filozofija prava i opšte nauke o pravu (Philosophy of Law and General Legal Precepts; Belgrade, 1931)
  • Problem realnosti prava (The Problem of Reality of Law; Ljubljana, 1932)
  • Benedetto Croce (Ljubljana, 1934)
  • Teorija pravnega sklepanja (The Theory of Legal Inference; Ljubljana, 1934)
  • Filozofske osnove pojma nevarnosti v kazenskem pravu (The Philosophic Bases of the Concept of Danger in Criminal Law; Ljubljana, 1936)
  • Politični nazor T. G. Masaryka (The Political Views of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk; Ljubljana, 1937)
  • Socialna filozofija Anatola Francea (The Social Philosophy of Anatole France; Ljubljana, 1937)
  • Problem pravne kavzalnosti (The Problem of Juridical Causality; Ljubljana, 1938)
  • Racionalizem in revolucija (Rationalism and Revolution; Ljubljana, 1939)

Other

In 1998, the Slovenian writer Drago Jančar wrote a short story about Furlan, titled "Joyce's Pupil". The story was translated into English by Andrew B. Wachtel in 2006.

Boris Furlan was the father of the renowned physician Borut Furlan.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Various secondary sources cite 10 June 1957 as Furlan's death date, but his gravestone (incorrectly) reads 16 June 1957.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Brecelj, Marijan. 1978. "Borut Furlan." Primorski slovenski biografski leksikon, vol. 5. Gorizia: Goriška Mohorjeva družba, p. 394.
  2. ^ a b Jevnikar, Martin. 1989. "Boris Furlan." Enciklopedija Slovenije, vol. 3. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, p. 162.
  3. ^ a b Grave of Boris Furlan
  4. ^ Richard Ellmann, James Joyce (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982), p. 341
  5. ^ Marta Verginella, Il confine degli altri: la questione giuliana e la memoria slovena (Rome: Donzelli Editore, 2008), p. 36
  6. ^ Marta Verginella, Il confine degli altri: la questione giuliana e la memoria slovena (Rome: Donzelli Editore, 2008), p. 36
  7. ^ Marta Verginella, Il confine degli altri: la questione giuliana e la memoria slovena (Rome: Donzelli Editore, 2008), p. 37
  8. ^ www2.arnes.si
  9. ^ www.rtvslo.si Archived 2011-06-09 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ "Razprava pred Okrožnim sodiščem v Ljubljani proti vohunski skupini: Nagode, Snoj, Furlan." 1947. Enakopravnost: neodvisen dnevnik za slovenske delavce v Ameriki 30(194) (6 October): 3. (in Slovene)
  11. ^ Alenka Puhar, Preface to the Slovene translation of George Orwell's Animal; George Orwell, Živalska farma (Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 2001)
  12. ^ Marta Verginella, Il confine degli altri: la questione giuliana e la memoria slovena (Rome: Donzelli Editore, 2008), p. 123
  13. ^ "Komentarji. Zbira in presoja urednik." 1947. Proletarec: list za interese delavskega ljudstva 42(2080) (20 August): 1, 5. (in Slovene)
  14. ^ "Borisu Furlanu spremenjena kazen." 1947. Enakopravnost: neodvisen dnevnik za slovenske delavce v Ameriki 30 (165) (25 August): 2. (in Slovene)
  15. ^ Marta Verginella, Il confine degli altri: la questione giuliana e la memoria slovena (Rome: Donzelli Editore, 2008), 123
  16. ^ Marta Verginella, Il confine degli altri: la questione giuliana e la memoria slovena (Rome: Donzelli Editore, 2008), pp. 123-124
  17. ^ "Umrli: Boris Furlan". Slovenski poročevalec. No. 137. 12 June 1957. Retrieved January 24, 2022.

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