Maks Klodič

Maks Izidor Klodič Ritter von Sabladoski (13 August 1875 – 11 November 1953) was a Slovenian civil engineer.

He was born in Trieste, Austria-Hungary, to the pedagogue and public servant Anton Klodič and Matilda née Pagliaruzzi. His mother came from a Carniolan noble family of Venetian origin but of Slovene national identity, while his father was ennobled when Maks was four years old, acquiring the noble title Ritter von Sabladoski (vitez Sabladoski in Slovene). Maks got his middle name, Izidor, after his maternal grandfather Izidor Pagliaruzzi, a Slovenian politician, mayor of Kobarid and member of the Provincial Diet of Gorizia and Gradisca.

Klodič completed his elementary studies in Trieste and enrolled in the Imperial and Royal Naval Academy in Fiume. After finishing his high school studies at the Realgymnasium (technical high school) in Gorizia in 1894, he enrolled at the Vienna Technical University graduating in 1901 with a thesis on railway engineering, a subject on which he spent most of his professional life. In his youth, he was also a marine painter like his brother, Paolo Klodic.

Klodič was married to Mina Miczuda, an Austrian noblewoman of Polish descent, with whom he had three children. His granddaughter Neda Klodič was married to engineer Anton Jež, Dachau concentration camp survivor and author.

In 2017, the Slovenian Railways named one of its passenger coaches after Maks Klodič, with his image painted on the outside and information on his life in the inside of the car.