Klement Jug
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Klement Jug (19 November 1898 – 11 August 1924) was a
mountaineer who died while climbing Mount Triglav. Although he did not publish many works during his lifetime, he became one of the most influential thinkers of the younger generations of Slovenian intellectuals in the interwar period
.
Life
Jug was born in a wealthy peasant-merchant family in
Austro-Hungarian town of Gorizia. He attended the grammar school in Gorizia and then enrolled at the University of Ljubljana where he studied philosophy under the supervision of the Slovene phenomenologist philosopher France Veber. A fervent reader of Kant, Jug developed his own philosophy based on the supremacy of the will and the unappealable adherence to ethics
and personal responsibility.
Since young age, Jug also practiced extreme
alpinism, in which he saw a way to practice the effort self-control. In one of his solitary excursions to the Julian Alps, he died by falling from the northern face of Mount Triglav
.
Legacy
Jug left very few written works. During his lifetime, he published only a few essays, while several philosophic and ethical reflections have been found as manuscripts after his death and published
Fascist Italianization
. Many of them found in Jug the source for their intellectual and personal inspiration.
Among Jug's direct disciples were the famous novelist
Ivan Mrak, and the poet and political activist Edvard Kocbek
.
Many prominent Slovene thinkers and artists have published their reflections over Jug's fate, including the literary critic
suicidal
personality.
In 1988, the writer and playwright
Slovenian National Television. A popular Alpine lodge in the upper Soča
Valley is named after him.
Sources
- Marko Klavora, Ljubezen in hrepenenje po večnosti: osebnost Klementa Juga ("Love and the Yearning for Eternity: the Personality of Klement Jug"; Ljubljana, 2006);
- Branko Marušič, Dr. Klement Jug : 1898-1924 (Ljubljana & Nova Gorica, 1998);
- Polona Puc, Klement Jug v slovenski literaturi ("Klement Jug in the Slovenian literature"; Ljubljana, 2007);
External links
- The script of the documentary on Jug on the Slovenian National Broadcast
- Media related to Klement Jug at Wikimedia Commons