Department of Classics, University of Ljubljana
Background
In 1919, the year when the Faculty of Arts was founded at the University of Ljubljana, the Department of Classics was its founding basis. The Ancient Greek and Latin language were a part of the study curriculum and a tool for study in many other study disciplines. The first professor of Latin was Ivan Lunjak, who had been lecturing in Moscow, Petrograd and Odessa.
After the Second World War the leading professors of the Department were Andrej Sovré and Milan Grošelj. The two were forming the study profile of the Department and expanded its interest in many other directions. In the last twenty years the progress towards new study profile was made possible with the young researchers, the adptation of the study programme and courses of Latin, Ancient and New Greek for students or other individuals.