France Planina

France Planina (29 September 1901 – 14 January 1992) was a Slovene geographer and cartographer.[1]

France Planina
Born	29 September 1901 Škofja Loka, Slovenia
Died	14 January 1992 (aged 90) Ljubljana, Slovenia
Awards	Levstik Award 1967 for Jugoslavija
Scientific career
Fields	geography

Planina was born in Škofja Loka in 1901. He graduated from the University of Ljubljana in 1925 and taught in secondary schools in Otočac, Kranj and Ljubljana. During the Second World War he was interred in the Gonars concentration camp. After the war he continued to teach and also worked at the Natural History Museum of Slovenia. He retired in 1962.[2] He died in Ljubljana in 1992. In 2001 a bronze bust to Planina was unveiled in Škofja Loka.[3]

In 1967 he won the Levstik Award for his book Jugoslavija (Yugoslavia).[4]

References

1. "Škofja Loka Museum Society site". Archived from the original on 2012-09-03. Retrieved 2012-05-14.
2. Web Biographical Lexicon of Famous People from Upper Carniola
3. "Škofja Loka Municipality site, Monuments to Famous Locals". Archived from the original on 2012-09-17. Retrieved 2012-05-14.
4. "The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site". Archived from the original on 2018-08-26. Retrieved 2012-05-14.