Ivan Ahčin (March 9, 1897 – February 14, 1960) was a Slovene sociologist,

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, and

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. Ahčin was born in Spodnje Domžale (now part of

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) and baptized ''Janez Ahčin''. He studied theology at the

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, where he graduated in 1925. He later worked as a professor of sociology at the University of Ljubljana. Between 1929 and 1941 he was also the editor of the newspaper '' Slovenec'', the official organ of the Slovene People's Party and one of the two most influential newspapers in

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. He was one of the closest associates of the conservative Slovene politician

Anton Korošec Anton Korošec (, ; 12 May 1872 – 14 December 1940) was a Yugoslav politician, a prominent member of the conservative People's Party, a Roman Catholic priest and a noted orator. Early life Korošec was born in Biserjane (then Duchy of Styr ...

. After the

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in April 1941, Ahčin cooperated with Marko Natlačen, former governor of the

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in the

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, who advocated collaboration with the

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administration of the

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. After the assassination of Natlačen by Slovene communist agents in October 1942, Ahčin emigrated to

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, from where he contacted the Yugoslav

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and became one of the main advisors of the exiled Slovene conservative politician Miha Krek. In Rome, he also established contacts with Janko Kralj, a Slovene exile from

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: the two helped many anti-Nazis escape Nazi persecution between 1943 and 1944, when Rome was under German occupation. After 1945, Ahčin moved to

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, where he worked as a professor at the

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's Faculty of Theology. He died of colon cancer in

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. In 1999, two historians from

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, Bojan Godeša and Ervin Dolenc, published Ahčin's memoirs of the period when he worked with Anton Korošec. The book, entitled ''Izgubljeni spomin na Antona Korošca'' (The Lost Memory of Anton Korošec), was published by Nova Revija, and it reopened the discussion of the role of Anton Korošec in Slovene history.

Books

* ''Komunizem: največja nevarnost naše dobe'' (Communism: The Greatest Danger of Our Time, 1939) * ''Prostozidarstvo'' (Freemasonry, 1941) * ''Sociologija I'' (Sociology I, textbook, 1953) * ''Sociologija II'' (Sociology II, textbook, 1955) * ''Socialna ekonomija'' (Social Economy, textbook, 1958)

References

* ''Slovenski veliki leksikon'' (Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 2003) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ahcin, Ivan 1897 births 1960 deaths People from Domžale 20th-century Slovenian Roman Catholic priests Slovene People's Party (historical) politicians Slovenian theologians Slovenian sociologists Slovenian editors Slovenian people of World War II Yugoslav emigrants to Argentina University of Ljubljana alumni Academic staff of the University of Ljubljana Academic staff of the University of Buenos Aires Argentine people of Slovenian descent Yugoslav Roman Catholic priests 20th-century Slovenian journalists 20th-century Argentine Roman Catholic priests