Stanko Klinar

Stanislav "Stanko" Klinar (April 29, 1933 – April 13, 2023) was a Slovene English-language specialist, translator, and author of literature about mountain hiking.

Life Stanko Klinar was born in Hrušica in northwestern Slovenia. He graduated from high school in Jesenice and then studied English and German at the University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Arts, graduating in 1956. and Slovene at Jesenice High School and at the same time at some other secondary schools in Upper Carniola and for continuing education courses in Jesenice. In 1968, he became a lecturer of modern English at the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Arts, and in 1985 he was appointed a senior lecturer in English. He lectured on translation and mountaineering and the connection between them (nomenclature, orthography, and terminology) in various courses and at various educational institutions, especially for the Slovenian Association of Scientific and Technical Translators (DZTPS) and for mountain guides, he participated in compiling the multilingual Planinski terminološki slovar (Mountain Terminology Dictionary, 2002), and he wrote forewords to volumes on mountain hiking by other authors—for example, Tone Škarja's Kangčendzenga – Gora usode (Kangchenjunga: Mountain of Destiny) and Jože Mihelič's Dober dan, Triglavski narodni park (Hello, Triglav National Park). In his youth, he himself was a mountaineer and mountain guide, as well as a competitive skier. He received his doctorate in 1996, and he became an assistant professor in 1997.