Lavo Čermelj
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Lavo Čermelj, Italianized name Lavo Cermeli (10 October 1889 – 26 January 1980), was a
Life
Lavo Čermelj was born in
In the early 1930s, he started actively working as a researcher at the
, and it became a reference work on the subject.When the Italian army annexed the Province of Ljubljana after the invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, Čermelj was arrested by the Italian authorities and tried at the Second Trieste trial. He was sentenced to death, but the conviction was later converted to life imprisonment. He was sent to the maximum security prison on the island of Elba. In 1944 he was released by Allied troops and joined the Yugoslav Partisans. After World War II, he collaborated as an expert for the Yugoslav foreign ministry, and after 1947 he dedicated himself mostly to the study of the legal position of the Slovene minority in Italy.
Čermelj also wrote several books and articles for the popularization of science. In 1971 he translated Hoyle's book Astronomy from 1962 into Slovene.[1]
He died in Ljubljana. In 1999, a memorial bust by Jakov Brdar was erected to him in Toscanini Park in Ljubljana.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Hoyle, Fred (1971). "Astronomy". COBISS 18285313.
- COBISS 7362381.