Ivan Hribar

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Portrait of Ivan Hribar by Ivana Kobilca

Ivan Hribar (19 September 1851 – 18 April 1941) was a

liberal nationalism. Between 1896 and 1910, he was the mayor of Ljubljana (nowadays the capital of Slovenia),[1] and greatly contributed to its rebuilding and modernisation after the 1895 earthquake
.

In Austria-Hungary

Ivan Hribar was born in the

Czech bank in Ljubljana
between 1876 and 1919.

In the 1880s he became involved in politics, soon emerging as one of the leading figures of the Slovene

ethnic German
minority of Ljubljana on a number of issues.

He remained in office until 1910, when the Emperor Franz Joseph I refused to confirm his reelection, because of his alleged role in anti-German riots two years earlier, in which two Slovenian students were shot by the Austro-Hungarian Army. He was succeeded by Ivan Tavčar.

Between 1889 and 1908, he served as member of the

Austrian Parliament
.

During his political activity in Austria-Hungary, Hribar was a great supporter of collaboration between Slovenes and other

Land Salzburg, far from his homeland, in order to isolate him from his potential political allies.[3]

Together with Mihajlo Rostohar, Hribar also played an important role in the establishment of the University of Ljubljana.

In the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

After the end of

Liberation Front of the Slovenian People
.

After the Italian annexation of Ljubljana

Hribar was known as a passionate politician and a great Slovene and Yugoslav patriot. After the

Yugoslav flag. He left a note with verses from France Prešeren's poem The Baptism on the Savica:[4]

Manj strašna noč je v črne zemlje krili,
kot so pod svetlim soncem sužnji dnovi.

Less fearful the long night of life’s denial
Than living ‘neath the sun in subjugation!

Tributes

After World War II, the embankment of Ljubljanica from which Ivan Hribar jumped into the river was named after him. On 30 August 2010, a monument to Hribar was unveiled on the Hribar Embankment (

Shoemakers' Bridge (Čevljarski most), not far from the place of his death. The monument was created by the Bosnian Slovenian sculptor Mirsad Begić
.

See also

References

  1. ISBN 9789042007451
    .
  2. ^ Geburts- und Tauf-Buch. Mengeš. 1843–1855. p. 100. Retrieved October 21, 2023.
  3. ^ "Ivan Hribar: Cesar ga ni več hotel za župana" [Ivan Hribar: The Emperor Did Not Want Him as Mayor Anymore] (in Slovenian). Dnevnik.si. 9 June 2010. Retrieved 6 January 2010.
  4. ISBN 9789612542535
    .

Sources

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    Slovenska matica
    , 1983–84).
  • Breda Mihelač, Urbanistični razvoj Ljubljane (Ljubljana: Partizanska knjiga, 1983).
  • Jurij Perovšek, Liberalizem in vprašanje slovenstva: nacionalna politika liberalnega tabora v letih 1918-1929 (Ljubljana: Modrijan, 1996).
Preceded by Mayor of Ljubljana
1896-1910 		Succeeded by
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