Joseph Velikonja
Slovene geographer
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- PhD Geography University of Ljubljana
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Joseph Velikonja was a Slovene-American geographer and professor. Personal life Velikonja was born in Ljubljana, one of 13 children of the writer Narte Velikonja and his wife Ivanka . While studying in Rome after the Second World War, Velikonja learned his father had been executed after a show trial in Slovenia. Velikonja met his future wife, Matilde Rus, a few years later in Trieste, where she was working as an English teacher. They married in Rome in 1950. He emigrated to the United States in 1955, where he briefly worked as a manual laborer before continuing his academic career. Later in his life, after retirement and extensive travels, he returned to Slovenia. His brother Tine Velikonja was a surgeon and president of the New Slovene Covenant non-Partisan veterans' organization for many years. Joseph Velikonja died in Nova Gorica, Slovenia on May 23, 2015. He was laid to rest at Žale Central Cemetery in Ljubljana on May 27, 2015.
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