Pahor Miroslav

Miroslav Pahor (Novel in the Slovenian Karst region. 5 November 1922 - Ankaran, 25. April 1981)

 

In 1951 he graduated in history from the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. In 1965, he earned his PhD with a thesis Social struggle in the Municipality of Piran from the 15th to 18th centuries. Initially he worked at the Study Library in Koper, then from 1954 in Piran. With the founding of the City Museum, he was appointed Head of this institution. He is considered the founder of the Piran Museum and the father of history of Slovenian seafaring. He carried out a research into the history of Slovenian coastal towns and was particularly engaged in the history of Slovenian seafaring. Together with his colleagues or on his own he published some highly significant works. With Ilonka Hajnal he wrote the book Po jamborni cesti v mesto na peklu (Along the mast road to the town in hell), in which he demonstrated and substantiated  integration of the Slovenian hinterland into maritime enterprise. He had some 150 treatises and articles published in various magazines and collections of scientific papers. For his professional work he received, in 1974, the Valvasor Award, the highest Slovenian recognition in the field of museum work. He led the Maritime Museum Piran till his death in 1981.

 

(Nadja Terčon, 2010, 173-187)