Niko Zupanič
Anthropologist and politician (1876-1961) · Academics · Died at 84
Niko Županič was a professor of ethnology at the University of Ljubljana. Upon outbreak of the World War I, he moved to Niš, Serbia and joined the censorship office of the Royal Serbian Army.
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He was a member of the Yugoslav Committee, an ad-hoc group of politicians and activists supporting political unification of the South Slavs in 1915-1919, and a representative of the newly established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919-1920. Županič joined the People's Radical Party and became the president of its regional committee for Slovenia. In 1922-1923, Županič served as the minister without portfolio in the government led by prime minister Nikola Pašić. Županič was the founder and the first principal of the Ljubljana-based Slovenian Ethnographic Museum. In 1926, he started publication of ethnological journal Etnolog in Ljubljana.
