Aleš Ušeničnik

Aleš Ušeničnik (3 July 1868 – 30 March 1952) was a Slovene Roman Catholic priest, philosopher, sociologist, and theologian. He was one of the main philosophers of Neo-Thomism in Slovenia and Yugoslavia. Ušeničnik was born in Poljane nad Škofjo Loko, then part of Austria-Hungary. He studied theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. In 1897, he became a professor at the Theological Seminary in Ljubljana. In 1919, he moved to the Faculty of Theology at the University of Ljubljana as a philosophy professor. He served as the fourth Chancellor of the University of Ljubljana in 1922 and 1923. He was also a member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas (from 1937) and a founding member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana (1938). The communist regime expelled him from the academy in 1948, but his membership was reinstated posthumously in 1996. He died in Ljubljana in 1952.