Ivan Dolinar

Birth house of Ivan Dolinar in Škofja Loka

Ivan Dolinar was born in Škofja Loka. After attending primary school he studied art and wood carving at Štefan Šubic. Traveled to Dalmatia and Montenegro and in 1859 he enlisted in Carniola and performed military service in Italy during the Second Italian War of Independence (April 26, 1859 - July 12, 1859). Carved and painted religious subjects for the Church, was the nephew of Luka Dolinar priest, composer and poet, born October 14, 1794 at Skofja Loka, † August 27, 1863 at Šmartno in Tuhinju. In 1865 he decided to stay in Trieste and lived in the neighborhood of Scorcola. Dolinar was co-founder and first president of Delavskega podpornega in bralnega društva (Association for support and literature). He was the founder and secretary of Edinost (bralno in politična društvo, i.e. association of reading and politics), this association and involvement with children and workers of the Slovene minority and organized cultural moments of reading, formed youth choirs, groups and organizations and theater, schooling in Slovenian. He was owner, publisher and editor of the Consortium of the newspaper Edinost. Dolinar died in Trieste, June 6, 1886, his obituary is on Edinost of 2 April 1898, A. XXXIII, No. 40 (press night).

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• Arhivska zapuščina Petra Grassellija, 1842-1933 - Pagina 467 Marjan Drnovšek - 1983 (a pagina 522 ... Ivan Dolinar (1840–1886) je de- loval tudi pri ...)
• Libro di scorno libro d'onore : la scuola elementare triestina durante l'amministrazione austriaca (1761–1918) / Diana De Rosa. Udine : Del Bianco Editore-1991-411 pagine