Anton Klodič

Anton Klodič Ritter von Sabladoski (10 November 1836 – 15 February 1914) was a Slovenian philologist, poet and pedagogue. Between 1869 and 1902, he served as the main school inspector for the County of Gorizia and Gradisca, where he was instrumental in establishing a school system in the Slovene language.

He was born in the village of Hlodič (Clodig, in Italian) in the municipality of Grimacco (Garmak in the local Slovene dialect) in what was then the Austrian-administered Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia. His father Valentin was a freeholder peasant and inn-keeper. His mother Anna, née Sabladoski, was the daughter of a Polish officer in Napoleon's army who had settled in Gorizia and married a local Slovene woman. He enrolled at the Catholic seminary in Gorizia but dropped out before consecration as a priest. After finishing his studies in classical philology at the University of Vienna, he taught at the gymnasiums in Graz, Split, Trieste and Gorizia.

In 1869, he was appointed by the Austrian Government as the school inspector for the Austrian Littoral where he vigorously promoted the study of both vernacular and classical languages. and of Maks Klodič-Sabladoski, the civil engineer who designed much of the Bohinj Railway. He was also the great-grandfather of Slovene entrepreneur Vanja Lokar and economist Aleš Lokar.