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Izidor Cankar (22 April 1886 – 22 September 1958) was a Slovenian author, art historian, diplomat, journalist, translator, and liberal conservative politician. He was one of the most important Slovenian art historians of the first part of the 20th century, and one of the most influential cultural managers in interwar Slovenia. ==Early life== Izidor Cankar was born in Šid, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia (now part of the Serbian province of Vojvodina). His father, Andrej Cankar, was a Slovene tradesman from Inner Carniola, while his mother, Marija Huber, was from a mixed Danube Swabian-Croat family. Izidor was a cousin of the famous writer Ivan Cankar. At the age of seven, his father went bancrupt. Young Izidor was taken into fostering by his aunt Karolina Hofberg.〔Alenka Puhar, ''Prvotno besedilo življenja'' (Zagreb: Globus, 1982), p. 346〕 Cankar grew up in a multicultural environment, and spoke Croatian, German and Hungarian since a young age. He attended Croatian-language schools, and throughout his life, he claimed his Croatian was better than his Slovene.〔Alenka Puhar, ''Prvotno besedilo življenja'', p. 347〕 In 1897, his cousins Ivan and Karlo Cankar convinced him to move to Ljubljana, where he attended the Classical Lyceum.〔(slo.slohost.net )〕 In 1905, after finishing high school, he decided to become a priest and enrolled to the Roman Catholic seminary in Ljubljana. There, he met the theologian Andrej Kalan, who had a decisive influence on Cankar's future intellectual development. After finishing the study of theology in Ljubljana in 1909, he enrolled to the University of Louvain where he studied esthetics. During this period, he also spent time in London and in Paris. In 1910, he enrolled at the University of Graz, where he studied philosophy. In 1913, he obtained a PhD in art history at the University of Vienna with a thesis on the Italian baroque painter Giulio Quaglio which he wrote under the supervision of the Slovene art historian France Stele. The same year he returned to Ljubljana, where he became the editor of the Catholic journal ''Dom in svet'', transforming it into the most prestigious literary magazine in the Slovene Lands.〔 Between 1918 and 1919, he worked as the chief editor of the conservative daily ''Slovenec'', the most widespread Slovenian newspaper of the time. During the same period, he became active in the Slovene People's Party, taking part in the negotiations for the unification of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs with the Kingdom of Serbia. After the formation of a unified Yugoslav state, he continued his studies in Vienna under Max Dvořák. In 1920, he returned to Ljubljana, where he became the director of the newly established Slovenian National Gallery. In 1923, he became professor at the University of Ljubljana. During the same period, he decided to leave the priesthood. He finally succeeded in his intents in 1926, and married to Marija Šumi from a wealthy Ljubljana family. In 1933, he founded the Slovenian section of the International P.E.N., and served as its first president until 1935. In May 1933, during the 11th congress of the international P. E. N. Club in Dubrovnik, Cankar voted for the expulsion of pro-Nazi writers from the organization, differently from the Croatian and Serbian representatives. In the same time, he became a close friend of the Yugoslav sculptor Ivan Meštrović, and served as the godfather of his second daughter. In the late 1930s, he convinced his wife's family to donate money for the construction of the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, of which he served as supervisor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Izidor Cankar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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