Zorko Jelinčič

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Zorko Jelinčič
Born5 March 1900
Died13 July 1965
NationalitySlovenian
Known fornational and cultural worker
Spouse(s)Fanica Jelinčič, born Obida and Danica Jelinčič, born Žun
Parent(s)Ferdinand Jelinčič
Josipina Jelinčič, born Trebše
RelativesSlavko Jelinčič (brother)

Zorko Jelinčič, (5 March 1900 - 13 July 1965) was a Slovenian national activist and cultural worker.

Life and work

He was born into a teacher's family in

capitulation of Italy. After the dissolution of Italy in the autumn of 1943 he joined the partisans; there he was a member of the Provincial National Liberation Committee for Slovenian Littoral. After the liberation, he settled in Trieste, where he worked mainly in the cultural section of the Provincial National Liberation Committee and later in the Educational Association. In 1948 he married for the second time Danica Žun. From 1958 on he worked in Institute for Ethnic Issues in Ljubljana and was one of the initiators for the creation of an ethnographic map of the Trieste territory based on original, ancient fallow names.[2] He has been involved in journalism since 1924, publishing articles in various newspapers. He commemorative book on Klement Jug
, he wrote two treatises: Dr. Klement Jug (1898-1924) and Jug and mountains.

References

  1. ^ Enciklopedija Slovenije. Mladinska knjiga, Ljubljana 1987-2002