Fran Bradač, Anton Sovre, Milan Grošelj, Jože Košar, and Fran Petre
Latin and Greek at the University of Ljubljana in the First Post-War Decade
Keywords:
history of ideas, classical tradition, history of classical philology, totalitarianism, universityAbstract
After WW2, the fates of Slovenian classicists were often decided by their standing with the Communist Party. However, the documents penned by ‘Andrej’, a State Security informant now identified as Fran Petre, reveal their difficult game of keeping up ideologically acceptable appearances while striving to preserve some bygone autonomy. The relative lack of restric- tions enjoyed by the Department of Classical Philology in the decades that followed unpre- cedented destruction between 1945 and 1950 was based on the fact that its discipline became increasingly marginalised.
