Background
Ušeničnik was born in the village of Poljane near the Upper Carniolan town of Škofja Loka, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now in Slovenia).
philosopher priest sociologist theologian
Ušeničnik was born in the village of Poljane near the Upper Carniolan town of Škofja Loka, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now in Slovenia).
He studied theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
In 1897, he became a professor at the Theological Seminary in Ljubljana. In 1919, he became a professor at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Ljubljana, where he taught philosophy. In 1922 and 1923, he served as the fourth chancellor of the University of Ljubljana.
In 1948, he was expelled from the academy by the new communist regime.
He died in Ljubljana in 1952.
His membership was reinstated in 1996 after the collapse of communism.
He was one of the main philosophers of neo-Thomism in Slovenia and in Yugoslavia.
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In 1937, he became a member of the Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas and in 1938 one of the founding members of the Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana (later renamed the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts).