Jakob Kelemina (1882-1957), nestor slovenske germanistike
Jakob Kelemina (1882-1957), Doyen of Slovenian Germanic studies

Summary/Abstract: Jakob Kelemina is considered to have laid the foundations for the Germanic and English studies in Slovenia. From the founding of the University in Ljubljana to his death in 1957 he was the head of the Section for Germanic Philology and the later Department for Germanic Languages and Literature at the Faculty of Arts, and for three mandates (1930/31, 1937/38 and 1944/45) also the dean of the faculty. He not only decisively marked the first phase of Germanic studies in Ljubljana but, together with Rajko Nahtigal (1877–1958), Fran Ramovš (1890–1952), France Kidrič (1880–1950) and Ivan Prijatelj (1875–1937), also the early days of the Slovenian university. His research into German medieval literature gained an international reputation, and he also researched and published literary studies, historical and modern linguistics, ethnography and folklore studies. This article, which presents his life, academic, pedagogical and research activities, focuses particularly on a detailed presentation of his studies at the University of Graz, and on a brief presentation of his pedagogical activities.

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