France Planina Explained

France Planina
Birth Date:29 September 1901
Birth Place:Škofja Loka, Slovenia
Death Place:Ljubljana, Slovenia
Field:geography

France Planina (29 September 1901 – 14 January 1992) was a Slovene geographer and cartographer.[1]

Planina was born in Škofja Loka in 1901. He graduated from the University of Ljubljana in 1925 and taught in secondary schools in Otočac, Kranj and Ljubljana. During the Second World War he was interred in the Gonars concentration camp. After the war he continued to teach and also worked at the Natural History Museum of Slovenia. He retired in 1962.[2] He died in Ljubljana in 1992. In 2001 a bronze bust to Planina was unveiled in Škofja Loka.[3]

In 1967 he won the Levstik Award for his book Jugoslavija (Yugoslavia).[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Škofja Loka Museum Society site . 2012-05-14 . https://archive.today/20120903130642/http://www.mdloka.si/slo/main.asp?id=29622A7F . 2012-09-03 . dead .
  2. http://www.gorenjci.si/osebe/planina-france/17/ Web Biographical Lexicon of Famous People from Upper Carniola
  3. Web site: Škofja Loka Municipality site, Monuments to Famous Locals . 2012-05-14 . https://archive.today/20120917103514/http://www.skofjaloka.si/default.aspx?Tip=1551651&KeyID=68&Naslov=Aleja_znamenitih_Locanov . 2012-09-17 . dead .
  4. Web site: The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site . 2012-05-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180826214407/http://www.mladinska.com/knjige/knjizne_nagrade/levstikove__nagrade . 2018-08-26 . dead .