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Obituary: Breda Pogorelec (1928-2006)
Message 1: Obituary: Breda Pogorelec (1928-2006)
Date: 26-Jul-2006
From: Donald Reindl <donald.reindlguest.arnes.si>
Subject: Obituary: Breda Pogorelec (1928-2006)
Breda Pogorelec (1928-2006), by Slavko Pezdir
Ljubljana - The multifaceted and productive life, research, and teachingcareer of Dr. Breda Pogorelec, a university professor, Slovenianspecialist, and linguist, came to a close at the Ljubljana Medical Centeron Thursday, 20 July. She was a prominent researcher and tirelessexplicator of the role and significance of the Slovenian language in theindependent Slovenian state.
Pogorelec was born in Ljubljana on 1 January 1928. After graduating fromthe classical secondary school, she received a degree in Slovenian languageand literature and in comparative Slavic grammar in 1952. She taughtSlovenian language and literature at the Brezice secondary school until1955, when she became an assistant instructor at the Department of SlavicLanguage and Literatures at the University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Arts.Here she advanced her career in research and teaching, attaining the rankof full professor for the Slovenian literary language and literature in1985. She was active until her retirement in 1997. From 1956 to 1958 shedid additional study at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, and shecompleted her doctorate at the University of Ljubljana with a dissertationtitled "Veznik v slovenscini" (The Conjunction in Slovenian).
Even as an assistant instructor, Pogorelec was instrumental in shaping theseparate study program in literary Slovenian as the core of Slovenianstudies at the Faculty of Arts, and this program remains in place today.Due to her exceptional sensitivity to sociolinguistic issues and currentsocial conditions, she was able to combine broad social engagement withtopics of current public interest in Slovenian in order to contribute tospecialized research in syntax, stylistics, text linguistics, and thehistorical periodization of Slovenian. Her efforts were reflected hercreation and leadership of the Slavic Society and the Socialist Alliance ofthe Working People (SZDL) of Slovenia's project "Slovenian in Public Life",participation in working groups of the Council for Slovenian, andchairmanship of the task force for linguistic issues in the NationalAssembly of Slovenia.
[Published in "Delo" 22 July 2006, translated by Donald F. Reindl]
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