Milica Kacin Wohinz

Milica Kacin Wohinz (left) in Trieste, together with writer Boris Pahor and historian Marta Verginella

Milica Kacin Wohinz (born 12 October 1930) is a Slovenian historian, renowned for her seminal study on the history of the Slovenes in the Julian March during the Italian administration between 1918 and 1943.

She was born as Milica Brezigar in the small Alpine town of Cerkno in what was then the Kingdom of Italy (now in Slovenia). She attended Italian-language schools in Cerkno and Tolmin until 1942, where she was expelled because of her father's anti-Fascist activities. Still as a teenager, she collaborated with the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People. After World War II and the annexation of the Slovenian Littoral to Yugoslavia in 1947, she frequented the Slovene language high schools in Postojna and Ljubljana. In 1952, she enrolled to the University of Ljubljana, where she studied history. She obtained her PhD in 1970 under the supervision of Vasilij Melik. Since 1959, she worked at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana. Between 1979 and 1983, she was head of the Institute.

She has researched the history of Slovenes and Croats in the Julian March. Her works on Slovene and Croat anti-Fascism during the Italian administration are considered pioneer. She was one of the first historians to engage in thorough research of the militant anti-Fascist organization TIGR.

She was member of the Slovenian-Italian Cultural-Historical Commission, established by the governments of the two countries to shed light on the historical relationship between the two peoples from 1880 to 1954.^[1]

Main works

In Slovene

• Slovenci v zamejstvu : pregled zgodovine 1918-1945 ("Slovenes Beyond the Borders: A Historical Overview"), co-authored with Tone Ferenc. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije, 1974;
• Narodnoobrambno gibanje primorskih Slovencev, 1921-1928 ("The National Defence Movement of the Slovenes in the Littoral Region between 1921 and 1928"). Koper: Lipa, 1977;
• Prvi antifašizem v Evropi. Primorska 1925-1935 ("The First Anti-Fascism in Europe. The Slovenian Littoral between 1925 and 1935"). Koper: Lipa, 1990;
• Primorski upor fašizmu : 1920-1941 ("The Slovene Resistance against Fascism, 1920-1941"), co-authored with Marta Verginella. Ljubljana: Slovenska matica, 2008.

In Italian

• Storia degli sloveni in Italia : 1866-1998 ("History of the Slovenes in Italy, 1866-1998"),co-authored with Jože Pirjevec. Venice: Marsilio, 1998;
• Vivere al confine : sloveni e italiani negli anni 1918-1941 ("Living on the Border: Slovenes and Italians between the Years 1918 and 1941"). Gorizia: Goriška Mohorjeva družba, 2004.

References

1. ^ http://www.kozina.com/premik/indexeng_porocilo.htm

• Biography

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Name	Kacin Wohinz, Milica
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Date of birth	12 October 1930
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