Julius Kugy

Julius Kugy was a mountaineer, writer, botanist, humanist, lawyer and officer of Slovenian descent, born on 19 July 1858 and died on 5 February 1944. He wrote mostly in German and is renowned for travelogues from opening up the Julian Alps, in which he reflected on the relationship between man, nature and culture. He opposed competing nationalist ideologies in the Alpe-Adria region and insisted on the need for peaceful coexistence among Slovene, Italian and German peoples.