Zorko Jelinčič
Zorko Jelinčič | |
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Born | 5 March 1900 |
Died | 13 July 1965 |
Nationality | Slovenian |
Known for | national and cultural worker |
Spouse(s) | Fanica Jelinčič, born Obida and Danica Jelinčič, born Žun |
Parent(s) | Ferdinand Jelinčič Josipina Jelinčič, born Trebše |
Relatives | Slavko 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.