Julius Kugy
| Julius Kugy | |
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Kugy about 1890
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| Born |
19 July 1858 Gorizia, Gorizia and Gradisca Austrian Empire |
| Died | 5 February 1944 (aged 85) Trieste Kingdom of Italy |
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Mounataineer Writer |
| Notable works | Aus dem Leben eines Bergsteigers |
Julius Kugy (original surname Kogej) was a mountaineer, writer, botanist, humanist, lawyer and officer of Slovenian descent. He wrote mostly in German. He is renowned for his travelogues from opening up the Julian Alps, in which he reflected on the relationship between man, nature, and culture. During all his life, he opposed competing nationalist ideologies in the Alpe-Adria region, insisting on the need of peaceful co-existence among Slovene, Italian and German peoples.
Julius Kugy was born to Slovenian family in Gorizia, then part of the Austrian Empire (now in Italy). His father Paul was a Farmer of Lind (Lipa) near Arnoldstein in the Carinthian Gail Valley. His mother Giulia was the daughter of the Slovene poet Jovan Vesel Koseski. Kugy was educated in a multi-lingual environment: from an early age he was fluent in the three of the four languages of his native Gorizia and Gradisca region: Italian, German, and Friulian. As he writes in his book Aus dem Leben eines Bergsteigers, he did not speak Slovenian. During his childhood he would spend the summers in his father's native village of Lind, where he developed his interest in nature and mountains.
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