Slovenia 2019 University of Ljubljana
University of Ljubljana
After the Spring of Nations in 1848, and the March revolution that
hit the Habsburg Empire, the demand to found a Slovene university was an
integral part of the Slovene political programme. But the Austrian authorities
turned a deaf ear to this demand until the fall of the monarchy in 1918. Before
the collapse of the monarchy Slovene students had therefore studied in Vienna,
Graz and Prague, and also in Krakow in the decade before the First World War.
After the collapse of the monarchy Slovene students were no longer able to
study at Austrian universities, and Slovene lecturers were increasingly being
dismissed from their posts. Primarily thanks to a small circle of influential
men (Karel Verstovšek, a politician, Danilo Majaron, a lawyer, and Mihajlo
Rostohar, a professor at Charles University in Prague), and with the support of
political parties, on 16 July 1919 the provisional parliament in Belgrade voted
for a law establishing a university in Ljubljana in the Kingdom of Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes, which began functioning in December of the same year.
The founding of the University of Ljubljana made it easier to get
the chance to study, and established the foundation for the development of the
sciences in Slovenia. Slovene students who had had to study abroad, Slovene
lecturers and other Slovene academics working abroad returned to the homeland,
and began systematically improving Slovene humanities under the wings of their
alma mater, introducing Slovene terminology and independently developing social
sciences and natural sciences. The University of Ljubljana evolved rapidly over
the decades, and earned a central place in Slovene academic and cultural life.
To mark the centenary of the founding of the University of
Ljubljana, the Republic of Slovenia is issuing a commemorative coin. The design
is based around the University of Ljubljana logo. The image of the façade in
the logo is replaced with the inscription 100 let Univerze v Ljubljani (100
years of the University of Ljubljana), which sits on a distinctive full square
design.
Weight
- 8.5 g.
Quality - UNC (Uncirculated)
Diameter - 25.75 mm.
Composition - Bimetallic - nickel brass clad nickel center in copper-nickel ring
Circulation - 1'000'000 pcs.
Country of origin - Slovenia
Year of release - 2019
