Ivan Dolinar
Ivan Dolinar was a Slovene Christian Democrat politician, teacher and journalist.Biography
Ivan Dolinar was born in Škofja Loka. After attending primary school he studied art and wood carving at Štefan Šubic. Traveled to Dalmatia and Montenegro and in 1859 he enlisted in Carniola and performed military service in Italy during the Second Italian War of Independence. Carved and painted religious subjects for the Church, was the nephew of Luka Dolinar priest, composer and poet, born October 14, 1794 at Skofja Loka, † August 27, 1863 at Šmartno in Tuhinju. In 1865 he decided to stay in Trieste and lived in the neighborhood of Scorcola. Dolinar was co-founder and first president of Delavskega podpornega in bralnega društva. He was the founder and secretary of Edinost, this association and involvement with children and workers of the Slovene minority and organized cultural moments of reading, formed youth choirs, groups and organizations and theater, schooling in Slovenian. He was owner, publisher and editor of the Consortium of the newspaper Edinost. Dolinar died in Trieste, June 6, 1886, his obituary is on Edinost of 2 April 1898, A. XXXIII, No. 40.
