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- Title
O DR. MILANU JAKLIČU IN PRVEM PREVODU KOMUNISTIČNEGA MANIFESTA V SLOVENSKI JEZIK.
- Authors
PEROVŠEK, Jurij
- Abstract
Creators of the political sphere were significantly influenced by key ideas of the time in which they lived in. In the Modern period, communism attracted a lot of attention and was acknowledged in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in The Communist Manifesto. The Manifesto defined the development of the Marxist Labour Movement and its parties - social democratic and communist. Its position in various national environments was best achieved with a translation into the local language, which facilitated the recognition of national Marxist political subjects' work. On the Slovene territory, the first translation of The Communist Manifesto into the Slovene language was done by dr. Miran Jaklič (jurist, Podgorica (Dobrepolje), February 14, 1886 - Ljubljana, June 30, 1963). It was published by the publishing house Naprej, a gazette of the district organization of the Yugoslav Social Democratic Party (JSDS) in Idrija. Milan Jaklič attended the primary and secondary schools in Ljubljana and finished law studies in Vienna in 1908. In 1905, he began sympathizing with social democracy. Between the years 1907 and 1914 he was, as a member of the JSDS, actively involved in creating its gazettes Rdeči prapor and Zarja, the first social democratic journal on Slovene territory. From 1911 he was a part of Zarja's editorship. He translated Marxist and other literature (Enrico Ferri, Socialism and the Modern Science (Ljubljana, 1910 [1911]), Maksim Go'rkij; Mother: Social Novel (Ljubljana, 1912), Oscar Wilde, Fairly Tales (Ljubljana, 1921). Jaklič was one of the more prominent members of the JSDS. Besides his editorial function, he was a part of the party's leadership between 1912 and 1919. In 1918, he took over the political leadership of the party's main gazette Naprej in Ljubljana. After 1919, when the Provincial Government for Slovenia (DVS) resigned and the liberal dr. Gregor Žerjav constituted the government, Jaklič, as a representor of JSDS, led the social politics ministry from November 1919 to March 1920. At the end of May 1920, he was the head of the Ministry for social politics in Belgrade and between 1923 and 1927 head of the Central bureau for workers insurance in Zagreb. Between 1927 and 1937 he devoted himself to researching potatoes and was especially interested in the growth of Jerusalem artichoke. Because of his public views against the enlistment to the so-called White Guard, he was interned to Italian concentration camps Monigo and Visco between November 1942 and September 1943. After the war he lived in Vrhnika and between 1945 and 1962 worked at the District People's Court, at the Local People's Committee and at the Vrhnika Municipality. The circumstances in which the first translation of The Communist Manifesto was created, are described in letters sent to Milan Jaklič in November 1907 by the editor of Naprej and the head of the First Lace Cooperative in Idrija, Anton Kristan (1881-1930). He explained to Jaklič, who was a student in Vienna at the time, the complete financial situation of the publishing house and the publication of the manifesto. He pointed out that the fee he expected for the translation was too high and offered and eventually payed a still high enough sum. The translation of The Communist Manifesto was part of the social democracy's efforts to guarantee a systematic publishing of socialist publications. Such decision was made unanimously at the 7th assembly of JSDS in 1907 in Trieste. Its realization was reported at the 8th assembly of JSDS in 1909 in Ljubljana by Anton Kristan, who talked about the translation of The Communist Manifesto. He emphasized the evident progress of the socialist print. Milan Jaklič thus joined other meritorious socialist authors who contributed to this fact - Anton and Etbin Kristan (1867-1953), Albin Prepeluh - Abditus (1880-1938), dr. Anton Dermota (1876-1914), dr. Dragotin Lončar, dr. Henrik Tuma (1858-1935) and others.
- Subjects
LJUBLJANA (Slovenia); DEMOCRATS (United States); SOCIAL democracy; PUBLISHING; POLITICAL party leadership; JERUSALEM artichoke; PROVINCIAL governments
- Publication
Acta Histriae, 2020, Vol 28, Issue 4, p645
- ISSN
1318-0185
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.19233/AH.2020.33