Etbin Kristan

Etbin Kristan (15 April 1867 – 22 November 1953) was a

Slovenian labour leader and Social Democratic politician and writer
during the late-Austrian-Hungarian and the Yugoslav monarchy.[1]

Biography
Kristan was born in Ljubljana, Duchy of Carniola, Austria-Hungary
(now the capital of Slovenia). He attended high school in Ljubljana
and in Zagreb. After finishing high school, he enrolled in the
military school in Karlovac. In 1887, he quit the military, moved to
Vienna, and dedicated himself to journalism.

In Vienna, he became active in the labor movement. In 1896, he co-

founded the Yugoslav Social Democratic Party (JSDS), and served
as its chairman until 1914. Kristan belonged to the left wing of the
party. He advocated cultural autonomy for all the peoples in the
Austro-Hungarian Empire, and clashed with the right wing of his
Etbin Kristan
party (represented by Albin Prepeluh, Dragotin Lončar and Josip
Ferfolja), which demanded territorial autonomy for Yugoslav
peoples.

In 1914, he emigrated to the United States. He returned shortly after the end of World War I and served as
member of the first parliament of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Disappointed by the political
development in Yugoslavia, he moved back to America in 1921. He settled in Cleveland, Ohio, and co-
founded the Slovene Republican Association of America, which he chaired.

He returned to Yugoslavia shortly before his death in 1951. He died in Ljubljana in 1953.

Literary career
In addition to his political career, Kristan was a translator, journalist, poet, and novelist, and the editor of
many Slovene publications based in Europe and the United States.

References
1. Jurak, Mirko (Winter 1985). " "The New World" in Etbin Kristan's Plays". MELUS. The
Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. 12 (4): 53–61.
doi:10.2307/466926 (https://doi.org/10.2307%2F466926). JSTOR 466926 (https://www.jstor.
org/stable/466926).

External links
Kristan, Etbin, Papers, UMN (http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/research/vitrage/all/ko/ihrc2999.html)
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