Vladimir Bartol

Vladimir Bartol was born on 24 February 1903 in Trieste, the third of the seven children of a postal employee and a schoolteacher who wrote and published. Settled in Ljubljana in 1919, he studied biology and philosophy there, defended his thesis in 1925, then attended courses in biology, psychology and psychiatry at the Sorbonne; he was one of the first to make Freud known in Slovenia. A theatre critic for decades, after the war he animated the Slovene cultural life of Trieste, joined the Academy in 1956 and died in Ljubljana on 12 September 1967.

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• NovelAlamutVladimir Bartol · 1938Literature