Aleš Ušeničnik

Aleš Ušeničnik

Aleš Ušeničnik(3 July 1868 – 30 March 1952)was aSloveneRoman Catholicpriest,philosopher,sociologistandtheologian.He was one of the main philosophers ofneo-ThomisminSloveniaand inYugoslavia.

Ušeničnik was born in the village ofPoljanenear theUpper Carniolantown ofŠkofja Loka,in what was then theAustro-Hungarian Empire(now in Slovenia). He studied theology at thePontifical Gregorian UniversityinRome.In 1897, he became a professor at the Theological Seminary inLjubljana.In 1919, he became a professor at the Faculty of Theology at theUniversity of Ljubljana,where he taught philosophy. In 1922 and 1923, he served as the fourthchancellorof the University of Ljubljana. In 1937, he became a member of thePontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinasand in 1938 one of the founding members of the Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana (later renamed theSlovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts). In 1948, he was expelled from the academy by the newcommunist regime.His membership was reinstated in 1996 after the collapse of communism.

He died in Ljubljana in 1952.