Luka Svetec
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Luka Svetec (8 October 1826 – 28 January 1921) was a
national conservative political group in 19th century Slovene Lands. He was renowned as an honest and principled politician, and was praised for his decency and his straightforward, practical attitude to political questions and life in general.[1] The Old Slovene leader Janez Bleiweis called him "a crystallized Slovene common sense".[2] Because of his failure to take over the political leadership of the party after the death of its leader Janez Bleiweis, also called Father of the Nation, Svetec was mockingly referred in the press to as "Stepfather of the Nation".[3]
Life and career
Svetec was born in the
Mokronog and Kočevje, and subsequently as a district judge in Brdo. Between 1866 and 1871, he worked in the municipal administration in Ljubljana, and later as a civil law notary in Idrija and Litija
.
He participated in the
natural right
of peoples.
After 1881, he was designated as the successor of
National Progressive Party
.
He died at the age of 94 in Litija.
References
- ^ Igor Grdina, Slovenci med tradicijo in perspektivo (Ljubljana: Študentska založba, 2003), 127
- ^ Ivan Prijatelj, Borba za individualnost slovenskega književnega jezika v letih 1848-1857 (Ljubljana: Slavistično društvo, 1937), 72.
- ^ Igor Grdina, Slovenci med tradicijo in perspektivo (Ljubljana: Študentska založba, 2003), 127
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