JANKO JURANČIČ Linguist; (b. Andrenci (Slovenske Gorice), 18 December 1902 – d. Ljubljana, 15 December 1989)

University professor: Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Ljubljana; head of the Lexicological Division of the Institute for the Slovenian Language of SAZU (1964–1983)

Membership of SASA: Department of Language and Literature; external member from 12 December 1985

Awards and recognitions:  special Vuk’s Prize (1987); Order of the Merit to the People; Order of Labour with golden wreath; Order of the Republic with silver wreath

Obituary: God. / SANU 96 (1990) 555–556 (I. Grickat Radulović)

Photograph: SANU F–558