Marija Rus

Marija Rus (2 August 1921 – April 2019) was a Slovenian Romance philologist, professor of French, translator, and poet. She was the first French teacher at Nova Gorica Grammar School. She contributed to the preparation of textbooks and curricula for the teaching of French. Her mother was the teacher Amalija Vardjan (1884–1943) from Črnomelj, and her father was the geographer and historian Jože Rus (1888–1945) from Ribnica. She had a younger sister and brother. After completing primary school, she enrolled in a classical grammar school. She enrolled in the study of classical philology at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. In 1947, she was admitted back to the university, took her final exam, and graduated in February in classical languages, ancient history with archaeology, and French.

Work

Teaching After graduating, she first worked as a teacher of mathematics and Russian at the lower secondary school in Kozina and as a Russian teacher at the lower secondary school in Tomaj, where she worked for four years.