Dragotin Lončar was a Slovenia

Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

n historian

Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

, editor

Editing

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 and Social Democratic politician

Politician

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He was born as Karel Lončar in Selo near Lukovica

Lukovica

Lukovica pri Domžalah is a settlement and municipality in the eastern part of the Upper Carniola region in Slovenia. It lies on the main road from Ljubljana to Celje and has been an independent municipality since 1995.-External links:*...

 in Upper Carniola

Upper Carniola

Upper Carniola is a traditional region of Slovenia, the northern mountainous part of the larger Carniola region. The centre of the region is Kranj, while other urban centers include Jesenice, Tržič, Škofja Loka, Kamnik, and Domžale.- Historical background :...

. After finishing the State Gymnasium

Gymnasium (school)

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 in Ljubljana

Ljubljana

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, he studied history at the Charles University in Prague

Prague

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, graduating in 1904. In Prague, he joined the circle of young Slovene left wing intellectuals that became influenced by the political and social thought of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, which included figures as Anton Dermota and Josip Ferfolja

Josip Ferfolja

Josip Ferfolja was a Slovene lawyer and Social democratic politician, and human rights activist from the Province of Gorizia...

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After returning to the Slovene Lands

Slovene Lands

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, he taught history at the prestigious Ljubljana's 'First Gymnasium

Bežigrad Grammar School

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', shortly serving as its director. he later served as the director of the National Museum of Slovenia

National Museum of Slovenia

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, and, from 1920, as president of the renowned publishing house Slovenska matica

Slovenska matica

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Before World War One, he joined the Yugoslav Social Democratic Party, where he belonged to its right wing led by Albin Prepeluh

Albin Prepeluh

Albin Prepeluh was a Slovenian left wing politician, journalist, editor, political theorist and translator. Before World War I, he was the foremost Slovene Marxist revisionist theoretician...

. He left the party after it merged with the so-called Centrists

Centrumaši

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 in 1921, who supported Yugoslav centralism. In 1924, Lončar was among the co-founders of the Slovenian Labour Agrarian republican Party, which in 1927 merged with the Independent Agrarian Party into the Slovenian Peasant Party, a Slovenian counterpart to the Croatian Peasant Party

Croatian Peasant Party

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, with which it maintained strong ties.

After the establishment of the royal dictatorship of king Alexander I of Yugoslavia

Alexander I of Yugoslavia

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, Lončar retrieved from politics, dedicating himself to his scholarly and editorial work.

He died in Ljubljana and was buried in the Žale

Žale

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 cemetery.

Major works

• Politično življenje Slovencev ('Political Life of Slovenes', 1906)
• Dr. Janez Bleiweis in njegova doba ('Dr. Janez Bleiweis
  Janez Bleiweis
  Janez Bleiweis was a Slovene conservative politician, journalist and public figure. He was the leader of the so-called Old Slovene political movement. Already during his lifetime, he was called father of the nation....
  
   and His Epoch', 1910)
• Slovenci: načrt slovenske socialne zgodovine ('Slovenes: A Sketch of Slovene Social History' 1911)
• Janko Kersnik, njega delo in doba (Janko Kersnik
  Janko Kersnik
  Janko Kersnik was a Slovene writer and politician. Together with Josip Jurčič, he is considered the most important representative of Literary realism in the Slovene language.- Biography :...
  
  : His Work and Epoch', 1914)
• Politika in zgodovina : nekoliko odgovorov na dnevna vprašanja ('Politics and History: Some Answers to Current Questions', 1923)
• Kako je nastalo današnje delavstvo in njegovo gibanje ('The Genesis of the Modern Working Class and Its Political Movement', 1930)
• Dragotin Dežman in slovenstvo (Dragotin Dežman and the Slovene Identity, 1930)
• The Slovenes: A Social History from the Earliest Times to 1910 (1940)